Hey, It Worked For Pol Pot.

by tristero

Here’s Robert Stacy McCain riffing on some reflections from Commentary on a new masterpiece from Norman “World War IV” Podhoretz entitled, and I’m not making this up, “Why are Jews Liberals?”:

If Messrs. Podhorhetz, et al., wish to promote conservatism among American Jews, let them find some way to encourage Jewish families to move to small towns in the Heartland, where their kids can grow up hunting, fishing and hot-rodding the backroads. A guy with a gun rack in the back window of his four-wheel drive truck may occasionally vote Democrat, but he’s extremely unlikely to be an out-and-out liberal.

Now it’s true: What Mr. McCain is suggesting can’t help but remind one of what Cambodia’s Pol Pot did. But, and I want to be fair here, Pol Pot didn’t ask very politely when he encouraged all the city slicker intellectuals to move to the country. I’m sure Mr. McCain and friends would handle the relocation of the Jews from the Upper West Side to Wedowee, Alabama with tremendous finesse and circumspection. The real question is, how will the good citizens of Wedowee greet all them Jews, ‘specially when their kids start to date?

Oh, one more thing: the sane, reasonable, Newt Gingrich does not approve of relocating America’s Jews… At least I think he doesn’t. Sometimes, like when he called Sotomayor a racist and then he didn’t, he takes both sides of a controversy. And this is, no doubt, an important controversy.

h/t sadly, no