Virginia Republican Not Trying Real Hard for Jewish Vote

[KamaAina]

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/09/virginia-republican-not-going-for-jewish-vote.html

The Virginia gubernatorial ticket has managed to offend blacks, gays, women, immigrants — pretty much all your liberal constituency. Somehow they have neglected the Jews. At a rally for Cuccinelli today, they tried to solve that problem while also getting some laughs:

John Whitbeck, 10th District Republican Committee chairman, kicked off the festivities by telling a joke about how the head of the Jewish religion presented the pope with a long, elaborate document that the Jewish leader said was a bill for the last supper.

It's a great piece of humor because it combines the Jews-are-cheap angle with the Jews-killed-Jesus angle in one joke.

Eric Cantor could not be reached for comment.

[LuvNewcastle]

1. I love it when Republicans say vile things.

They're digging that hole down to irrelevance that much deeper. Sooner or later, in order to become a Republican, you're going to have to publicly accept Jesus Christ as your personal savior and get baptized on tv. I'm loving it.

[joeybee12]

2. That's Hilarious!

I mean, hilarious to simple-minded bigoted scum...the Repuke base...maybe this was part of their GOTV effort?

[Gothmog]

3. The GOP deserves to lose the Jewish vote

The GOP is busy alienating all of the major groups in this election. Women, minorities and the poor are all on the wrong side of GOP policies. Now the GOP wants to give the Democrats the Jewish vote

[leftynyc]

8. The Democrats already

have our votes for the most part. The attitude of this schmuck is only one of the reasons why.

[Behind the Aegis]

4. They don't get much from us anyway.

It is one of the reasons they consider us traitors, as opposed to the other side. Virginia doesn't have a huge percentage of Jews (about 1.2%). But I was surprised to see the recent stats showing that almost 100,000 Jews live there.

[LuvNewcastle]

5. I think a lot of people from Maryland are moving down to northern Virginia.

I've been told that a lot of Jewish people live in Maryland.

[Behind the Aegis]

7. Always possible.

I just checked the 2012 stats for Maryland, and they are a little more than twice the number of Virginia. Of course, I know many that work in the DC area are choosing to live in Virginia now, as opposed to Maryland, but I can't remember why that is. Here is the place I am pulling stats from: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/usjewpop.html

[LuvNewcastle]

9. Thanks, I bookmarked it. I didn't know there was such a source for that info.

[bowens43]

6. Wow.

[FSogol]

10. GOP Governor hopeful, Ken Cuccinelli was there stumping for that clown at a rally of 250.

[immoderate]

11. Dunno. If a Jew tells that joke, it's pretty funny...

Just saying "the head of the Jewish religion" should make Jews laugh. I speak as a bona fide Jewish atheist.

I don't think Cuccinelli needs to worry about losing Jewish votes. Yeah there might be a few, but there is nothing he could do to lose those.

--imm

[KamaAina]

12. If a black comedian (e.g. Richard Pryor) says the N-word, it's pretty funny

Otherwise, um, not.

[immoderate]

13. Yeah, and don't get me wrong, it wasn't all THAT funny...

and maybe it's only funny if a Jew tells it. (Jackie Mason?) (No! Ooh! Gilbert Gottfried!)

But let's also take into consideration that there are some things that comedians can do, that politicians can't get away with. And the costs of "losing a gig" are not comparable.

--imm