This post is about Gingrich’s latest robocall, which accuses Romney of forcing Holocaust survivors to eat non-kosher food as he cut expenses from the Massachusetts budget. Here’s the text of the call:
As governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney vetoed a bill paying for kosher food for our seniors in nursing homes. Holocaust survivors, who for the first time, were forced to eat non-kosher, because Romney thought $5 was too much to pay for our grandparents to eat kosher. Where is Mitt Romney’s compassion for our seniors? Tuesday you can end Mitt Romney’s hypocrisy on religious freedom, with a vote for Newt Gingrich. Paid for by Newt 2012.
The Romney campaign is saying that the call is an indication that Gingrich’s campaign is at death’s door. In fact, it’s long since come back from the grave. And the call is likely to resonate with some of Florida’s large elderly Jewish population. After all, it implies that even Hitler didn’t deny Jews kosher food (though I think that implication is historically wanting). The robocall is also not an accurate characterization of what happened in Massachusetts.
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Still, it might work. I’m eager to see exit poll results regarding how Florida Jews vote.