Ari Fleischer--Leading The Jewish Vote Out Of The Democratic Party

That's the impression Webutante seems to have. These days, Fleischer has his own communications consulting firm, Fleischer Communications, which specializes in helping sports teams and helped start a new conservative think tank in Washington, D.C. called Freedom’s Watch.

In an article, Ari Fleischer: A New Breed of Jewish Leader, for Pajamas Media, Webutante writes about a speech Fleischer gave at the Republican Jewish Coalition. She was very impressed:

"In my business, it's all about making inroads," he said " No doubt about it, getting the Jewish vote out of the Democratic party and into the Republicans is a slow steady inroad we're making every year, every election. And we've only just begun."

 You could hear a pin drop.

"We're finally understanding the real threat that Islamic extremism represents to the United States, Israel and the rest of the free world. There's no such thing as peace without 100% strength."

Fleischer recalled the United States' first wars against Islamic fundamentalism, The Barbary Wars, in the early 1800's when then President Thomas Jefferson refused to continue paying bribes to Muslim pirates in the Mediterranean. Both the George Washington and John Adams Administrations had made bribery payments from the U.S. Treasury in hopes that our ships would not be attacked, robbed and destroyed off the coast of Tripoli. But to no avail.

"Jefferson said no more to Islamic bribery after repeated attacks on our ships and declared war, sent in the Marines and won that war, just like President Bush after 9-11."

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It was at that moment I saw Ari Fleischer in a totally new light: He was a modern day Moses leading his people out of slavery, into freedom. But rather than leading them out of the land of Egypt, he was taking them out of the bondage of the Democratic party.

Maybe you had to be there to really appreciate Fleischer's speech. I don't know. But I do recall that in the last presidential election the results did not indicate any trend towards Republican gains among Jewish voters.

Like Moses, Ari Fleischer may need a miracle.

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