With Coleman’s electoral defeat and Specter’s defection, the GOP is left without a single Jewish senator and only one Jewish Member of the House, Eric Cantor. The Dems, in contrast, have 13 Jewish senators and 31 in the House.
Interestingly, as Gilgoff points out,
… [this] falloff of Republican Jews in Congress … coincides with the decade-long trend of Republicans making support for Israel a central issue for their party…
Republicans, and conservative talking heads, have lost touch with the general populace, including Jews, by focusing on certain narrow, divisive issues such as illegal immigration, Christian Zionism, abortion and gay marriage without thinking whether their viewpoints are widely supported or are even sensible and reasonable.
How is it that as conservatives have become literally enslaved by the idea of Zionism, Jews are moving farther and farther away from them?
