The Republican Road To The White House Runs Through Israel

[Purveyor]

AS Senator Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) announced on Monday that he is running for president, his Virginia audience cheered. He dropped applause line after applause line on some 10,000 students at Liberty University, which bills itself as the largest Christian university in the world.

Cruz riffed, unimaginatively, on an “imagine” theme, asking the young audience to “imagine a president” who would repeal Obamacare and perform other feats. There was applause throughout. But one line prompted the students to erupt into a roaring, 30-second, standing ovation:

“Instead of a president who boycotts Prime Minister Netanyahu, imagine a president who stands unapologetically with the nation of Israel.”

It brought down the house.

There can be little doubt. Evangelical Christian voters, a key component of the Republican Party base, are wild about Israel. They are also furious about what they see as President Barack Obama’s rough treatment of the current custodian of the Holy Land, Netanyahu. This fervent evangelical support for Israel could help a GOP candidate seize the Republican Party’s presidential nomination - and then capture the White House.

Among conservative Republicans, according to a July 2014 Pew Research poll, 77 percent back Israel, while only 4 percent favor the Palestinians in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. Among all Republicans and voters who lean Republican, 78 percent of white evangelical Protestants sympathize with Israel, compared again to just 4 percent who side with the Palestinians.

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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/region/29-Mar-2015/the-republican-road-to-the-white-house-runs-through-israel

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1. http://www.quickmeme.com/img/63/63b31a028b39f387ba474d7e6c8a9c4c56f6b5f1e38f1c598f6bebb8d624a1ac.jpg

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2. https://smalltownrevelations.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/jesus_camp2_1.jpg

[ellenrr]

3. Scary....nt

[Badass Liberal]

4. Even the Falwell U. audience didn't cheer...

He hardly "brought down the house." See: The Daily Show; The Nightly Show

[lutefisk]

5. OY! Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker doesn’t know the difference between ‘Mazel Tov’ and ‘Molotov’

(Excerpt from NT Daily News story)

The Dairy State Republican confused the Jewish expression of congratulations with a homemade explosive device in an undated email to a Jewish constituent. Oy vey.

Simple-minded Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker appears to not know the difference between a common Hebrew phrase and a homemade grenade...

In an undated letter to a Jewish constituent, who appears to have previously asked Walker to display a Menorah at the Milwaukee County Courthouse in honor of Hanukkah, Walker thanks the man for his letter and happily agrees to the request. But in his valediction, Walker, who is rumored to be considering a 2016 presidential bid, makes a notable gaffe.

LINK to Daily News story

[MisterP]

7. gasoline-powered menorahs?! allen runter!

[kairos12]

8. This has to be the Onion right?

[ellie]

10. What a moron.

[Sunlei]

6. sure, Israel 'investors' hand out the easy mortgages like candy today.

Plenty of new building for family homes. Mandatory military service with good Gov. benefit$$ and housing subsidies$$.

One of the top investments has always been real estate for those republicans. This is their favorite game, wealth building off the little people & 'free' gov. money. Wealthy Rs have experience in setting-up a housing bubble. Todays income is the pure interest revenue on the new mortgages. 15-20 years later will come the mass foreclosures.

[Arkana]

9. Who's going to tell them that Israel doesn't get any electoral votes?