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Lars77

(3,032 posts)
Sun Jul 29, 2012, 02:40 PM Jul 2012

Romney pledges support for Israel



US presidential candidate Mitt Romney has told an Israeli audience in Jerusalem that the United States has "a solemn duty and a moral imperative" to block Iran from achieving nuclear weapons capability.
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Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
1. Nothin' like a good 'ol Neocon speech.
Sun Jul 29, 2012, 02:47 PM
Jul 2012

Mitt just lost the White Supremacist vote that's also into Jewish Conspiracies.

Lars77

(3,032 posts)
2. Yup but the "new wave" of right wingers are also zionists
Sun Jul 29, 2012, 04:53 PM
Jul 2012

Since their main objective of hate are muslims (such as Anders Behring Breivik).

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
3. Just check out the Freepers.
Sun Jul 29, 2012, 05:07 PM
Jul 2012

And the Ron Paul supporters.

They are all about foreign policy and the banks and the Fed being run by Jews and are as bad as any KKK member.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
7. No, the John Haggee-type baggers will support Mitt. They are more pro-Zionist than the Israelis are.
Sun Jul 29, 2012, 06:23 PM
Jul 2012

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They believe that if America doesn't support Israel come hell or high water, or make any criticism of them at all, that America will be destroyed. Anyone who complains about the settlements or anything else, is wrong. Go half way down the page:

http://www.jhm.org/Resources/JhmBlog

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
9. Haggee is really in the decline.
Sun Jul 29, 2012, 11:28 PM
Jul 2012

He's shutting down his show in markets that don't donate enough to him.

When was the last time he even had any real influence? The 90's? I don't even think he got much press during the Bush Years apart from that claim that the Holocaust was part of a "divine plan" to create Israel. Even then, when he said that it was seen as an attempt by a has been to get attention.

The Teabaggers and the Paulites came along and they HATE the "old order". They also hate the Jews. They claim it was the Jews in the Bush Administration that started the war in Iraq and the Jews in the Obama Administration that crashed the economy. This new group within the Republican Party wouldn't mind nuking Israel themselves.

The Ron Paul types would rather cut off aid to Israel and say, "You're on your own."

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
10. Paulies, probably. But the scooter baggers are still heavy into the Israel thing. And since I refuse
Sun Jul 29, 2012, 11:42 PM
Jul 2012

To listen to CBN, etc. anymore, I'm not current. But I've seen some of the young evangelistas who are all against Iran and all pro-Israel still. But true, the Paulies aren't into it, they are of the Israel is the blah, blah, USS Liberty, etc. banksters, etc.

When I go back to some of the boards I used to post on but the stench of Beck, etc. got too heavy and administrators and moderators wouldn't control the abuse, they are still talking like Haggee. They seem to feel that they are Christians and Israel is an important part of their destiny.

You can put powder on a dog to get rid of fleas, but you can't get dogma out of these people. It's not just the old ones who grew up in it, but the Jesus camp generation. These people are not like anyone most of us know. Althnough I know some Democrats who have also fallen back into their dogma they were taught as children and have given up and gone looney.

These were not stupid, uneducated people, but the media told them how wrong Obama was, and they added that to some of their own life disappointments, which were by no means as tragic as others, and decided to go down the rabbit hole. You cannot get these people out of this.

Are you looking for arguments to get the fundies out of voting for Romney? I wish I could help, they wear me out.

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
11. "Are you looking for arguments to get the fundies out of voting for Romney?"
Mon Jul 30, 2012, 01:20 AM
Jul 2012

Why bother? His being a Mormon does that for them now.

The only reason some of them are even considering it is because Beck is a Mormon too. Him and Donnie and Marie.

One mention of the White Horse snaps them back though.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
12. You did see A/V thread of the Freepers going for Romney? No more zotting. Obama must go!
Mon Jul 30, 2012, 01:25 AM
Jul 2012

I don't know that the Mormon is going to work on all of them. Now, just to clarify, the Democrats I know that have gone down the rabbit hole, aren't going to vote for Romney. But they refuse to vote for Obama. To me, it's almost the same thing.

Proles

(466 posts)
8. Wow... he's really ballsy saying those things, and not in a good way.
Sun Jul 29, 2012, 06:49 PM
Jul 2012

It's really quite dangerous actually.

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