Jewish ≠ Democrat

What’s up Reader,

So anyone of my YouTube subscribers would’ve figured out by now that I definitely believe anti-Semitism factored into Kamala Harris’s decision in her VP pick.

Just last week I wrote on how Shapiro was the likely pick. That’s what the reporting held.

Until Nancy Pelosi ripped her copy of Trump’s State of the Union, I truly respected her style and leadership. This got her in a rut that’s truly delusional at best.

Pelosi thinks there was no anti-Semitism playing a role in the Veep’s Veepstakes. In her company is Bernie Sanders, every member of the squad, and Mehdi Hassan (who I have limited respect for).

If you’re trying to make the case anti-Semitism had no place in the VP selection, having Omar, Tlaib and Sanders jumping for joy isn’t the cattle sporting your argument. Heck, even Van Jones claimed anti-Semitism played a role.

Now for my dive on this.

I am a regular attendee and contributor to Mark Halperin’s 2WAYs. Mark is a journalist with integrity and standards.

His reporting widely indicated Shapiro was all certain as of last Friday night. 24 hours later he called for an unplanned zoom call and said forces within the party were trying to reverse the tide and get Harris to undo the decision and pick Walz.

“No way it’ll work,” I thought. All roads to victory lead through Pennsylvania. Something Shapiro is best suited to deliver. Michael Smerconish even said, “the campaign barn storm of battleground states begins in PA. There’s no way it’ll be Gov. Shapiro introducing someone else in his home state.

Late on Saturday we saw Shapiro running away from a piece he wrote in his 20’s calling out Palestinian violence.

Tuesday morning we learned that’s exactly what’ll happen.

Last Saturday, Smerconish had on a fantastic panel that laid out all of this in a short few minutes.

Anti-semitism exists on the extreme right and left, but by no means does the extreme right have the same chokehold on the main stream as the extreme left. The VP pick is case and point.

I mean comparing Jews in elected GOP to elected Democrats is laughable. Jewish presence in the Dem party far exceed those in the GOP.

So I don’t think the GOP is a Jewish kumbaya, all I’m claiming is that Jew hatred played a role in the Walz-Shapiro decision.

Walz and Shapiro were “well behaved” Democrats. The former enacted pro choice and LGBTQ protections while the latter endorsed a two state solution and denounced Netanyahu (I like the ideas of the latter, but I digress).

Shapiro met the PA education bureaucrats in the center on school choice, something the orthodoxy might have been against, but PA’s 19 electoral votes might offer that orthodoxy some cover.

To be fair, here’s a few sources that agree and disagree with me. Let me know what you think? Am I another Jew playing victim? Crying alarm when there’s no cause?

An argument I do think has credibility, the only one at that. Is that as we saw in the first rally this week Shapiro has the flair and ambition of a number 1, not a number 2. Kamala was looking for a number 2.

As always, interested in your thoughts:

Anti-Jew played a role: