Most Jews Won't Vote GOP

Zev Chafets writes for Fox News about the recurring hope that American Jews will finally vote for the GOP. Chafets calls this hope "sheer fantasy."

Jews are not simply supporters of the Democratic Party; they are at the heart of everything from union leadership to campaign funding, think-tank policymaking to grass roots organizing.

Three of the four liberal justices on the Supreme Court are Jews. There are 10 Jewish U.S. senators and more than 20 Jewish members of the House. In contrast, after the departure of Majority Leader Eric Cantor, there isn't a single Jewish Republican in Congress.

The great majority of American Jewish Democrats see their party and its agenda as their secular religion. Reform Judaism, America’s largest Jewish denomination, is sometimes jokingly called “the Democratic Party with holidays.” A lot of Jews would sooner convert to Shia Islam than leave the party of their forefathers.

I'm sorry to report those views agree with what my Jewish friends tell me, as noted here before. Obama would have to arm Hamas to get Jewish votes for the GOP, and even that might not work.