Every candidate in the Republican Presidential field, with the exception of Ron Paul, attended the Republican Jewish Coalition Convention Thursday at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington DC. Accuracy in Media’s Benjamin Johnson has spliced together highlights from everyone’s speech and writes:
Each candidate received half an hour to appeal to the 300 attendees in an overwhelmingly Jewish audience. Each speech was marked by poignant criticisms of the POTUS, particularly in the field of National Security policy. Some of the harshest criticism came from former Speaker and new frontrunner Newt Gingrich, who chastised the Administration’s relationship with Pakistan and accused the Pakistanis of “clearly conspiring to hide Bin laden for eight years.” Gov. Romney accused the President of drawing down American Forces in Afghanistan in the name of “electoral expediency” and Gov. Perry referred to the Administration’s Foreign policy as “a mess.” Republicans are working hard to appeal to this historically democrat base, encouraged undoubtedly by polls showing a sharp decrease in the President’s standing in the Jewish community. It remains to be seen if the 78 percent of the Jewish vote in 2008 that went for Obama has eroded under the harsh criticism of four years of questionable, if not risky, Israeli Policy.
