At the AIPAC conference panel on the 2012 elections, President George W. Bush’s spokesman Ari Fleischer says the Jewish vote is a bellwether.
He was making the point that President Obama’s "1967 lines" contretemps with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could hurt him in the long term.
If Jews go 4-1 Democrat, as they did in 2008, Republicans lose, he says, but:
If the Democrats win 3 to 1, it almost always tips it to the Republicans in Florida and Ohio.
That gets some applause. This gets applause and hisses:
I’ll take a 3-to-1 loss any day.
Paul Begala, a former Clinton adviser, scores with the Democrats in the room with some hits at Bush for forcing the Palestinian elections in 2006 (over Israeli objections), bringing Hamas to power.
