Report: Bachmann Taking Support From Romney Because Jewish Donors Think She’s Jewish

by Alex Alvarez | 9:52 am, August 30th, 2011

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A fund raiser for former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney‘s presidential campaign is running into some trouble getting money from Jewish voters, and not because they don’t agree with the Mormon candidate’s policies or with his stance regarding Israel — they’d just rather their money go to a Jewish candidate. You know, like Michele Bachmann.

Evidently, Bachmann has been popular among Jewish voters, despite being very outspoken about her Evangelical Christian beliefs. Some within Romney’s camp wonder whether she has confused members of the Jewish community by referencing her work looking for landmines on a kibbutz in Israel back in 1974. She has also previously said that while she is Christian, she considers her heritage Jewish, “because it is the foundation, the roots of my faith as a Christian.” Here’s what she told a Jewish blogger following an AIPAC Policy Conference in 2010:

I have been a long time supporter of Israel. The first time I went to Israel was the day I graduated from high school. I spent a summer working on Kibbutz Be’eri near Beer Sheva in 1974. I’ve been 4 times in Israel – 3 times as a Member of Congress. I loved Israel – from the moment I first landed.

As a young girl from Anoka, I was shocked at the level of security in Israel. We worked on the kibbutz from 4 am to noon. We were always accompanied by soldiers with machine guns. While we were working, the soldiers were walking around looking for land mines. I really learned a lot in Israel.

I was delighted to go back as a Member of Congress, and see all the changes. To see how it has developed – it is nothing short of a miracle! To see a rose bloom in the desert. In 60 years, Israel has achieved first world, or nearly first world, status. I am honored to be in a position where I can help Israel. I have a tremendous love for Israel, and great admiration for the Israeli people. I am a Christian, but I consider my heritage Jewish, because it is the foundation, the roots of my faith as a Christian.

Bachmann’s spokesperson Doug Sachtleben, meanwhile, maintains that Jewish voters identify with Bachmann not because they believe she is Jewish, but because she has been vocal about her support for Israel. But she does have chutzpah. Or something like it.

h/t NY Post

Chutzpah, Israel, Jewish, kibbutz, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney

http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek Bulk Vanderhuge

Oh look another Democrat party activist hit piece. Where were all these stories about Obama? Why do we never see negative stories like this about Dmeocrats on Mediaite?
Anonymous

Do you get paid whether or not you repeat comments you made on other articles? Or is it just an internship?
Tony the Fist

Who would people rather read about: Napolitano or Bachman? Pelosi or Palin? Chicks = clicks.
Plus for the bloodthirsty, the fact that they’re conservative Reps is like introducing a showering college girl in a Friday the 13th movie. To them their existence is solely for the purpose of being ripped to shreds. Not condoning it, just saying.
Anonymous

Why do we have to put up with the “tea spin”? There are demo hits currently on this site today!
MUMZER

Bachmann will continue to be goysha …no matter how much she utters .
Anonymous

Romney is about to make another blunder. I highly doubt the Jewish community believes Bachman is Jewish. However, the fact that she supports the country, has a firsthand experience in their way of life would be a commendable response to her sincerity and conviction when speaking to them. Romney could never have used this ‘confusion’ comment against Obama, who happened to have the majority of liberal Jewish voters in the last election. It is not a very strategic comment to make.
Anonymous

Great reasons to vote.
Anonymous

Remember when she pronounced “chutzpah” as “chitzpa”? You’d think she would have known better, having worked on a kibbutz.
http://twitter.com/runforfun54 Ilene K

Of course, when all else fails, blame the Jews. This is a disgusting comment from the Romney MORMON camp and it ‘s even more vile that anyone in the media repeats it! YET, YOU DONT’ HAVE THE COJONES TO ASK SARAH PALIN WHO THE MOTHER OF TRIG IS!
http://twitter.com/runforfun54 Ilene K

THANK you Surfergrl – Over 70% of American Jews were smart enough to vote for President Obama in 2008. It’s highly unlikely that they have lost those smarts to go completely to the other end of the political spectrum (is “wingnut” on that continuum?). it’s a stupid comment to make and only serves to scapegoat Jews, yet again.
Anonymous

Bachmann is not Jewish, but as a teenage high school student, she spent a summer working at hard manual labor on a Kibbutz cotton farm.

I am not a Bachmann supporter, but lets give credit where credit is due.
Anonymous

Remember when Obama said corpseman, and he was speaking Austrian at the time while touring the 57 states, or was that his country of Europe he was taking about?
Anonymous

Or report on the Obama family either.

1) Obama has a drug dealing brother living in a cardboard shack

2) Obama has a pedophile brother who is on the no-fly list for having sex with a 13 year old gir in the UKl.

3) Obama has a brother who is under investigation in Washington D.C. for charity fraud.

3) Obama has an illegal alien aunt in Boston living in free public housing, on welfare and food stamps.

4) Now Obama has an illegal alien uncle in Boston, who has obtained an illegal ID, driver’s license and SS number, it now comes out he too is also on the dole.

5) The father of Obama was deported from the US because of his propensity of having sex with underage girls, he paid airfare for one to the UK to have an abortion, the INS, U of H and Harvard U stated he was a very slippery character and they could not determine how many wives he had
Anonymous

Yes, I do. I don’t know if you know it, but you’re preaching to the choir here.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

That is even more ignorant than asking for Obama’s birth certificate…
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

That’s almost funny… thanks to the Jews of Palm Beach county George Bush was elected president back in 2000.. 23,000 jewish voters in Palm Beach county in the days immediately after the election claimed that they had voted incorrectly as they did not take the time to properly look at or try to understand the instructions provided on the ballot.. Their claim was that they had intended to vote for Gore but after seeing the ballots post election they were sure that they had unintentionally voted for Bush..

I am not so sure how smart they are when it comes to voting…. we have both the 2000 and 2008 elections that suggest at least in the voting booth, they maybe aren’t so smart.
http://www.facebook.com/mitchell.s.gilbert Mitchell S. Gilbert

Its most unfortunate that for many older Jewish people, the Holocaust was the defining event in their lives and when it comes to Israel, anyone who criticizes the Jewish State is Nazis, anyone who supports it, must either be Jewish or a Christian saint.
BooBoo Bear

They think she’s Jewish mainly because Christians wouldn’t be so callous about other humans as she is, her ‘brand” of Christianity is something that is off the scales.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

Hell, I thought Whoopie “Goldberg” was black! go figure…