RJC: Obama Will Lead to Second Holocaust

Greg Sargent got his hands on this charming mailer from the Republican Jewish Committee:

Concerned about Barack Obama? You should be. History has shown that a naive and weak foreign policy has resulted in tragic outcomes for the Jewish people.

Charming stuff, and following hot on the heels of a Pennsylvania GOP email making similar fearmongering efforts aimed at Jewish voters. Meanwhile, polling shows that American Jews are likely to vote for the Democratic candidate in the same overwhelming numbers we always do. The whole subplot over the past seven years wherein far-right elements whose political views have nothing in common with those of American Jews and whose candidates are rejected by American Jews in staggering numbers pose as the world’s great defenders of Jewish interests has been very odd. Out of all American ethnic groups, Jews are second only to African-Americans in their loyalty to the Democratic Party and arguably have the most firmly progressive convictions of any group out there. Presumably a Republican could win a larger share of the Jewish vote, but that would have to be accomplished by taking steps to actually move closer to the views and concerns of Jewish voters instead of endless repetition of this kind of fearmongering.