John Droney Scolds Jews for Supporting Lamont

[donsu]

http://lamontblog.blogspot.com/2006/07/john-droney-scolds-jews-for-supporting.html


David Silverman, writing for JTA, a Jewish news service, has quite the scoop about Jewish support for Ned Lamont. According to an internal poll, Ned is beating Joe Lieberman among Jewish voters in Connecticut:

But an internal Democratic poll of Connecticut Jews sees Lamont leading by 50 percent to 41 percent, JTA has learned. The sample was small, but the results were a dramatic departure from the 90-plus approval rating Lieberman scored among Jews after Al Gore named him as his running mate in 2000.

Connecticut Jews make up 111,000 of the state's 3.4 million people, or a little more than 3 percent of the population, according to the Jewish Virtual Library.

And I didn't think it was possible for Lieberman's right-hand man John Droney - who previously called all Lamont supporters "terrorizing" "left-wing weirdos" - to say something even more offensive. But check this out:

"I find the behavior of a large segment of the Jewish community to be reprehensible and outrageous," said John Droney, a former chairman of the state party who is advising Lieberman to run as an independent. "When he's in trouble like this, they all ought to rally to him. It's too bad that you have to listen to an Irish-American to realize that you've got to support your own home cooking."

"Reprehensible and outrageous." Wow.

It's obvious both Lieberman and Droney yearn for the days of machine politics when a candidate could count on his ethnic constituency for unified and unconditional support regardless of how much he screwed up in his job. Real democracy is a bitch for incumbents like Joe, isn't it. But for a non-Jew to scold Jewish voters like this for daring to support a candidate of their choice... that's what's really reprehensible and outrageous.
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[Bjorn Against]

1. This is sick

Because I am a white male should I be bound to support all white male candidates as well? Too bad it is not going to happen. It is sick to demand allegiance based on race, class, gender or religion. Remember the part of the Constitution that says there shall be no religious test?

[1monster]

3. Grin. I just had a thought. If all voting age people were required to

vote and Drooney's comment were taken to its logical conclusion, white males would be out of the loop. Latino females would rule all three branches of government. }(

[peacetalksforall]

2. If it were possible to get a statement from Republican Senators - I'm

sure they would all be pushing for Leiberman. This Droney guy should get all the Republican Senators to petition Jewish voters in CT. That shold seal the deal for Lamont.

[ugarte]

4. Typical Freeper chutzpah...

"We love you Jews so much we know what's best for you."

[bluestateguy]

5. There is probably a divide between the different denominations

Orthodox and Conservative for Lieberman, and Reform and Reconstruction for Lamont.

[IndianaGreen]

9. Conservatives are not "conservatives" in American political parlance

Jewish Conservatives are moderates, the Conservative movement being a reaction to what was viewed as excesses by Reform. Our temple Beth-El Zedeck, for example, is a Conservative/Reconstructionist congregation.

[karynnj]

10. Most of the Conservative Jews in NJ

that I know are more liberal than they are moderate - epecially in the current shifted to the right political world. We've belonged to a Conervative, a reform and a recontructionist synagogue as we moved around - the services and religious views differ, but I didn't see much difference politically.

[bluestateguy]

11. Yes, I'm aware of that, but thank you for pointing that out

I should have made that point clear to people not familiar with Judaism.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Can you imagine if a prominent Catholic leader chastized Catholic voters

for voting for Nixon in 1960?

Playing the religious card is just as bad as playing the race or the patriotism card.

[ugarte]

7. This guy is not even Jewish, making it even more absurd...nt

[calico1]

8. I am a Latina woman.

So I suppose I am supposed to just looove Alberto Gonzales, right? :eyes:

[jbnow]

14. Yes, and with my Italian heritage

I must think Scalia and Alito are the best judges ever on SCOTUS

[AtomicKitten]

12. Playing the ethnic/religion card is a pathetic sign of desperation. n/t

[dflprincess]

13. This sort of thing really backfired in 1990

when incumbent Senator Rudy Boschwitz sent out a letter to the Jewish Community in Minnesota telling them he was a better Jew than Paul Wellstone. He was publicly criticized by some Rabbis for doing this. The letter went out the weekend before the election and it was what pretty much put Wellstone over the top.

[Behind the Aegis]

15. Sounds all so familiar.

Everyone telling us what is best for us...happens here too.

[Vidar]

16. What a pathetic loser!