TRUMP’S ANTI-SEMITIC POSITION HAS BEEN REVEALED

…Trump at the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) Presidential Forum

 

Trump has made negative comments against Hispanics, Muslims, women, vets, the disabled and the Jews.

 

The conservatives have finally recognized that they waited too long to go after Donald Trump, and now they are going “ass over tea kettle” in trying to stop the Trumpeteers.

 

They are correct that the concept that Donald Trump could unify the Republican Party is entirely unrealistic, but the question they are now asking is “Who could unify the party?”

 

It’s a good question.  Ted Cruz….no way.  John Kasich, perhaps if he had started earlier, had more money and had won or done better in the early months, but now….probably not.

 

The party that for weeks crowed about how great the 17-18 candidates they started with were the “best group of potential nominees we’ve ever had!”  But they are finding out that maybe there’s a good reason they are down to these specific final 3 candidates, and the one running in the lead is their worst nightmare.

 

Now, super high-profile conservatives such as Erick Erickson are working hard in making a serious effort to derail Trump.  According to Erickson, “His [Trump’s] ideological incoherence, character, business record and language are beyond the pale for too many Republicans. Recent events underscore how impossible it would be for Republicans to unite, and therefore to adequately fund and elect Trump.  We are a group of grassroots conservative activists from all over the country and from various backgrounds, including supporters of many of the other campaigns. We are committed to ensuring a real conservative candidate is elected. We believe that neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump, a former Hillary Clinton donor, is that person.”

 

Erickson continued: “We believe that the issue of Donald Trump is greater than an issue of party. It is an issue of morals and character that all Americans, not just those of us in the conservative movement, must confront.  We call for a unity ticket that unites the Republican Party.  If that unity ticket is unable to get 1,237 delegates prior to the convention, we recognize that it took Abraham Lincoln three ballots at the Republican convention in 1860 to become the party’s nominee.  If that is good enough for Lincoln, that process should be good enough for all the candidates without threats of riots.  We encourage all former Republican candidates not currently supporting Trump to unite against him and encourage all candidates to hold their delegates on the first ballot.”

 

To show everyone how serious this staunch Republican conservative is, he does not rule out a third candidate or an entirely new party. 

 

Erikson is saying what is the only logical conclusion: “We intend to keep our options open as to other avenues to oppose Donald Trump. Our multiple decades of work in the conservative movement for free markets, limited government, national defense, religious liberty, life, and marriage are about ideas, not necessarily parties.” 

 

But if the party is serious, the GOP leadership and Trump opponents should both be saying the same thing, instead of offering Trump cover as they are doing today. Given that Trump faces such unremitting hostility from minority voters, the prospect that the core of the GOP would not support him just suggests the real possibility of a landslide GOP defeat if Trump is the final nominee.

 

I would suspect that this is one of the possibilities that the Clinton machines is hoping for in November.

 

But the problem doesn’t stop within the Republican Party.

 

Trump is causing havoc in the pro-Israel community as well, which includes many Christian Zionists and other Republicans. 

 

The Washington Post had said that Trump’s inclusion in the list of invited presidential candidates to speak at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) had spurred a boycott of 40 rabbis.  It is unclear how many attendees they represent, but it is suspected by many participants that by not attending or by walking out of the reception, it registered their disapproval to the world. Even though it appeared that the AIPAC crowd approved of Trump’s hawkish statements at the conference, many  of those rabbis still did not attend.

 

Now, while most AIPAC members are Democrats, many are not. In concert with Christian Zionist groups, AIPAC Republicans and pro-Israel Republicans elsewhere have kept up the case against the Obama administration’s treatment of Israel and its Iran policy. To the extent they now find themselves with a candidate as bad as, if not worse than, Hillary Clinton, they signal that Trump is in effect the worst Republican imaginable.  Someone so unacceptable that, like Erickson’s group, they could look elsewhere such as at Senator Ted Cruz.

 

The reality is that the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) has been seriously afraid to speak out against Trump even after he declared he would be “neutral” between the Palestinians and Israelis, not a supporter of Israel.  They have also not said they would support him if he is the nominee. This comes after he attended the RJC’s presidential forum, where he said he was undecided on Jerusalem as the undivided capital of the Jewish state.  However, now he says he would move the US Embassy to Jerusalem.  So, which do we believe?  Also he has indulged in anti-Semitic stereotyping such as telling them, “You’re not going to support me, because I don’t want your money. You want to control your own politician.”

 

Basically, it is easy to predict that if Trump is the nominee, Jewish support for the GOP nominee will probably hit an all-time low.  As Republicans had said with regard to President Obama’s Democratic supporters in 2012 when his stance on Israel was well-known. You cannot be for Trump and also be serious about US / Israel relations and fighting our common enemies. The two are mutually exclusive, just as support for a consistent conservative domestic-policy agenda cannot offer support for Trump.

 

So far, Trump has not gotten to the required 1,237 delegates, and already the solidarity within the GOP that would be necessary to win the White House continues to fray. If Trump is the final nominee, the long-term damage to the party will haunt the GOP long after the returns show Hillary Clinton and Senate Democrats as the big winners in November.

 

I guess this is what we should hope for at this point.

 

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