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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNewt Robocall: Mitt Romney Forced Holocaust Survivors To Eat Non-Kosher Food
http://pamshouseblend.firedoglake.com/2012/01/31/newt-robocall-mitt-romney-forced-holocaust-survivors-to-eat-non-kosher-food/Wow. I dont care how badly you want to go from the GOP Clown Car to the White House, Newt, you simply dont have to go here. Via Amanda Terkel at Huff Post, why Gingrich clearly doesnt understand why Jewish voters in Florida might be offended by a candidate peddling this:
The allegation made in the call, obtained by anti-robocall activist Shaun Dakin, is undoubtedly targeted at Floridas large Jewish and elderly populations.
The text of the call:
As governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney vetoed a bill paying for kosher food for our seniors in nursing homes. Holocaust survivors, who for the first time, were forced to eat non-kosher, because Romney thought $5 was too much to pay for our grandparents to eat kosher. Where is Mitt Romneys compassion for our seniors? Tuesday you can end Mitt Romneys hypocrisy on religious freedom, with a vote for Newt Gingrich. Paid for by Newt 2012.
The call is referencing Romneys veto of a 2003 bill. It came at a time that some nursing homes were considering eliminating their kosher kitchens during a period of budget cuts. Their plan was to instead bus in kosher food from other locations. The bill Romney vetoed would have given an additional $600,000 in funding to nursing homes, therefore making it possible for them to continue cooking kosher food on site.
stockholmer
(3,751 posts)lisby
(408 posts)elleng
(130,964 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)The Nazis let them keep kosher in the camps?
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)So non-food couldn't be considered non-kosher.
What a festering boil on the butt on humanity is Newt.
MADem
(135,425 posts)The truth of the matter was that those nursing homes had a minority of Jewish residents--about a third of the total, IIRC (even though they were widely recognized as "Jewish Nursing Homes" and of that third, only a small minority even kept kosher.
However, if people want to believe--and continue to believe through the general election--that Romney is a brutal pig who takes away the kosher food from Holocaust survivors, who am I to labor on behalf of a GOP candidate to correct that general impression?
Yeah, politics--it can get dirty some times. This is probably about as low as I've seen it go this cycle. It still doesn't beat McCain's "Illegitimate Black Love Child" accusation, though! That one was absolutely priceless in its tastelessness and audacity. The fact that some morons believed it, though, made me think that idiots often get what they ask for, and sometimes what they deserve.
That robocall was plausibly deniable, though. It was "Paid for by Newt2012" but Newt didn't "approve this message." There's a degree of separation there!
emulatorloo
(44,131 posts)I agree with everything you say. I have no interest in riding to the rescue any GOP candidate.
And honestly you reap what you sow.
It is difficult to feel any sympathy for Romney given his policies and the outright lies he's been telling about Obama.
sabbat hunter
(6,829 posts)disgust me. Right along with the push polling.
denem
(11,045 posts)The Holocaust is one thing, but "Holocaust survivors" are not bandied about in Jewish Political Circles to prove a point. Not Ever.
This call didn't need to put 'Holocaust survivors' into the script.
When asked, Newt responded : I know nothing about it.
The narrator purports to be Jewish. Even an incompetent attack unit in contact with Jews would not go there, IMO.
rbrnmw
(7,160 posts)slime coated scum sucking vermin
Jester Messiah
(4,711 posts)Seriously, THIS is how desperate Newt's gotten? I thought the space-pandering was sad, but this, this is a whole new level of pathetic.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)It is going to get nasty.
cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)Newt is trying to appeal to a minority group. Not many GOPers will even attempt that feat. He is doing it badly so it ticks that group off. He is using the SOP to smear a fellow Republican, so we have a blue print for what to expect in the GE and will hopefully be ready to counter their smear campaign.
eyewall
(674 posts)it goes from awful to horrible. What's next?
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)Good grief. I don't know how Romney's coming out under this crap (as if he doesn't have his own baggage to haul around), but the Georgia Venomous Newt is fast becoming one species we'd like to see on the endangered species list.
When is that creep just going to go away?
MACARD
(105 posts)he sure likes slinging his poop around so i might call him a monkey P.S. Gingrich the monkey poop slinging Politician joke is available for any comedian who wishes to use it.
as for the Georgia Venomous Newt, i Live in Georgia, unfortunately they breed like rabbits, i also saw them on National Geographic, they have a quality of Tenacity and rabidness. they kill each other for the slightest alteration in color or opinion. i might also mention the GA Newt stinks to high hell, as there is usually a Romnifous likeus, or Democratinus memborus, hanging from its mouth that it is dragging through the mud.
JBoy
(8,021 posts)MACARD
(105 posts)Gingrich might just want to die before pandering to Muslims.
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,959 posts)He is doing nothing more than trying to play both sides of the fence; attract Jewish voters and anti-Semitic trash.