Jim Perry, a 22-year-old Libertarian, made a name for himself in college when, shortly after moving to New Hampshire to live free or die, he strapped a gun to his side and marched into a local Borders book store and proceeded to rip up a copy of his Massachusetts income tax return.
That sort of fighting spirit is a job requirement in his new post: executive director of the group \”Jews for Ron Paul.\”
Each of the leading GOP presidential candidates to some degree has run away from the Bush legacy. But this week they made their case before one of the president\’s most loyal constituencies: Republican Jews.
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Even with Republican sponsors and a largely Republican audience, the panelists at a recent discussion on Steven Spielberg\’s \”Munich\” covered most of the spectrum from left to right.
George W. Bush wasn\’t the only Republican to win big on election night. Larry Greenfield, director of the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) of Southern California, also fared quite well.
Surrounded by a crowd of 250 Jewish Republicans partying at Beverly Hills\’ Level One club, a beaming Greenfield looked more like a giddy teenager than a 42-year-old man in a dark suit. As news of the Republican triumphs came in, RJC members hugged and high-fived Greenfield, who has become the public face of Southern California\’s Jewish Republicans.
\”It used to be in California that we were afraid to speak out in a roomful of Jews, but now we\’re standing up and speaking up,\” said a jubilant Bruce Bialosky, who chairs the Southern California chapter of the Republican Jewish Coalition. \”Why, even the rabbis are changing their sermons.\”\n\nBialosky talked on his cell phone above the din at Arnold Schwarzenegger\’s victory party, minutes after Democratic Gov. Gray Davis had conceded his loss in the recall election, and the Republican movie star was chosen as his successor.\n\n\”This is akin to the Reagan revolution and we\’re going to make big inroads into the Democratic hold on Jewish voters,\” proclaimed attorney Sheldon Sloan, one of Schwarzenegger\’s earliest Jewish backers.\n\nThe optimistic outlook of the two Republican stalwarts was not shared by Democrats. Most political analysts did not foresee a basic change in the state\’s political culture.
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