HOW TO GET INTO THE FOX DEBATE

The other night while watching Rachel Maddow chat with Frank Rich about the impressive size of the potential Republican presidential hopefuls- wait a sec, that sounds like a snide comment about Chris Christie - let me re-phrase, about the overwhelming number of Republican candidates who may not "make" the Fox channel's "cut" for a debate they will be televising next month, apparently there are only ten places available and if your polling doesn't measure up you're out; just like a Trump show, anyway, and Rachel was musing aloud to Frank that perhaps one of the GOP candidates or all, would need some outrageous statement some verbal outrage to outdo even Trump to set them off from the lowly pack they find themselves in for now; a distinguishing incident to pull away from the crowd and make a singular stand to exploit and thus make the cut for that all important Fox gig.

What could anyone possibly say or do? I mean the Republicans have only been playing the "race" card for the pass 6? years ( and every election cycle since Goldwater's campaign? before?); the anti-immigration card has been played for a while now and the fight seems to be just who can be more stupid than Marco Rubio or those Texas knuckleheads ; and it seems all the Republicans did their hemming and whoring on the Confederate battle flag status, worried what their John-Birch-White-Supremacist-Patriot base would think- no it can't be those. So the Mexicans are out already. The Blacks can't be used either- if anything, they've been overused-neutralized as a threat. Gays - perhaps an outrage about same sex marriage? Nope, polls show that will never work no matter what Santorum and Cruz and those other yahoos say. There is one card that hasn't been played much- but has an American bona fide and is occasionally used in a sort of code language among the base and its proponents. It could be too risky, even political suicide but given its fire-power and a longer range strategy it may do the trick: All of the Republican bete noires, their calling cards if you will from liberal stalwarts like Social Security and Food Stamps to immigration policies to civil rights and gay marriage to the certain subversive Supreme Court justices to minimum wage advocacy to wars in the Middle East and terror threats at home to the obfuscatory measures taken to take the Christ out of Christmas to the unsavory tactics of big banks and giant financial centers (if needed) to the disappearing middle class and unemployment, all, as I say, can be rolled out and spoken in one two word phrase and even shorter than that : the Jew.

Though it hasn't been front and center in our politics for quite some time - its heyday during the 1920's and 1930's with a resurgence of a kind in the 1950's - it may very well unite the Republican base in a way that may even surprise the Birchers themselves. It unites over class and religious ties and may even draw in disaffected Democrats, we know it makes people feel better about their lowly selves and particularly at this time in the American scene where ignorance and hatred seem ascendant and valued for their political prospect. But what about the well off and terribly rich and contributing Republican Jews? Sheldon and Stevie and the assorted hedge fund honchos and others, well what will they do- support the Dems they have been railing against since Obama was elected? Who will they now decide is best for Israel? Haven't they said that whats best for America is best for Israel anyway and what of it? They don't like it they can take their money and move elsewhere- their money already has anyway and besides there's plenty of rich goyim around . Who needs them? There's always the dual loyalty charge to level and you already have a solid electorate to build on if the ADL figures are accurate - 10% of the American adult population are anti-semitic or at least feel Jews are different in certain negative ways. I think thats a bit conservative myself but what the heck. And some of our most popular Presidents and religious leaders were of the opinion:

LIVE FROM THE OVAL OFFICE, FEB. 21, 1973:

Graham:  It might be  because of this religious 

situation that's coming up in the country. 

President Nixon: Right, but I  would be very, very tough 

with all of our Jewish friends in here, like Tannenbaum.

You tell him he's making a terrible mistake and that they're going to get 

 the darnedest wave of anti-Semitism here if they don't behave.

Graham: Well, that's exactly right and Mark Tannenbaum 

 is probably the most outspoken and the most listened-to rabbi in America. 

President Nixon:  Yeah.

Graham: And he's going to come down here this week.

 And he wrote a letter to the New York Times defending

 me a few days ago. And he--I think if we can swing him  

over to make some strong statements, it'll have a great effect. 

President Nixon:  Right. 

Graham: He's certainly one of the cleverest 

 and most brilliant of the rabbis.

President Nixon:  Right. Right.

Graham: And it was very much for you this past time. You know we tried to get him to lead the prayer--

President Nixon: I know.

 Graham: --at the Republican Convention. But he felt he 

 couldn't go quite that far. 

President Nixon:  No. Well, the thing that you've really

 got to emphasize to him though, Billy, is this: anti-Semitism

is stronger than we think, you know. They just--it's unfortunate,

 but this has happened to the Jews. It happened in Spain,

 it's happened in Germany, it's happening--and now

 it's going to happen in America if these people don't 

 start behaving. 

Graham: Well, you know, I told you one time that the Bible 

talks about two kinds of Jews. One is called "the synagogue of Satan."

They're the ones putting out the pornographic literature. 

They're the ones putting out these obscene films. 

President Nixon:  Like the thing in Time magazine.  

Graham: Terrible. 

President Nixon:  And then Newsweek.

Graham: Ruth [Graham] canceled both of them.President 

Nixon: Good for her.

Graham:  We won't take Time or Newsweek.

President Nixon: I'll tell you it's a disgraceful thing. And I think, really, they don't deserve to live.

And this "Jew-strategy" could be used in a more cynical fashion by off-setting say our lucky candidate and maybe even getting him or her elected and there would be an added bonus if say Sen. Bernie Sanders was somehow  to be the other side's nominee. Not only would you have your Jew-card to play but out of the mush of history  there would be the socialist boogeyman to play in hand also.  How much more lucky can you get?
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Jewish groups react to Mike Huckabee’s ‘oven’ remarks

07/27/15 10:06 AM—UPDATED 07/27/15 11:02 AM

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By Anna Brand

Jewish groups across the country reacted to Mike Huckabee’s comments, in which the GOP presidential candidate this weekend likened the Iran deal to the Holocaust, with one organization saying the remarks “may be the most inexcusable we’ve encountered in recent memory.”

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