…what alcoholics call a “moment of clarity.”
“Other than Ronald Reagan, Republicans have not done spectacularly well at wooing Jewish voters. Indeed, George Bush only managed to get 19 percent of the Jewish vote in 2000, and his father only managed to get 11 percent of the Jewish vote in 1992. Certainly a number of Jewish voters were probably offput by Bush’s stated belief that Jews probably couldn’t get into heaven (a belief he has since renounced).” (emphasis added)
(source: plastic)