ADL, Jewish Dems Attack Mike Huckabee. Who Will Defend Him?

Mike Huckabee got under attacks from Jewish Democrats and ADL for his frequent use of holocaust imagery in his speeches. Who will defend him? We will. But first charges.

JTA reports:

Jewish Democrats are targeting Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor running for the Republican presidential nod.
The National Jewish Democratic Council this week distributed to its followers Huckabee fact sheets outlining the candidate's belief in creationism as alternative evolutionary theory and his casual use of Holocaust imagery. He has described abortions as a "Holocaust" and once joked about his own dramatic weight loss that it was the result of a stay in a Democratic concentration camp.
Huckabee is emerging as a media favorite because of his casual, direct style and is creeping up on frontrunners in polls, suggesting his once long-shot candidacy could at least result in a vice-presidential bid. [link]

Abe Foxman is never too far from a useless fight or an attack on friends of Israel.

The Anti-Defamation League wants presidential candidate Mike Huckabee to quit using Holocaust imagery in describing abortion.
Huckabee, a Republican and former governor of Arkansas, referred to the “holocaust of liberalized abortion” at the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., last weekend.
In a letter to the Huckabee, ADL National Director Abraham Foxman said that “such analogies can only trivialize and diminish the horror, and cause further pain to Holocaust survivors and to those alive today who lost friends and loved ones.”
Huckabee's office did not return JTA calls seeking comment. [link]

Greg Margolin, JRT's editor and publisher comments:

In 2004 I attended Massachusetts GOP key member dinner.The audience was what it supposed to be at such an affair-- lots of men in business suits, key donors to the party.
Mitt Romney was still full of hopes for a Republican revival in Massachusetts and made a well received, optimistic speech.
But the show was stolen by the keynote speaker, Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee. He was very funny and entertained the audience with jokes about Southern political practices, and about how he felt being a Republican in a democratic state -- like a fire hydrant -- said Mike -- in a neighborhood of twenty dogs. But then, he turned to the question how he decided to go to politics. He told the story about taking his teen-age daughter to Yad Vashem and that was a very serious decision for him -- to expose his child to the horrors of Holocaust. After the visit his daughter asked him -- Why nobody did anything about it? This was a question that was very much on his mind when he decided to go to politics, said Huckabee. This was said at Mass. GOP key donor dinner. You don't have to  be Jewish, from Massachusetts, or to be a political maven to know that there were very few Jews in the audience. Yes, there were a few Russian Jews at our table, but, that was about it. The audience was tense that you literally could hear a pin drop. This is how the audience was taking in Mike's words. This is not a man to be attacked by ADL. This man is our friend.

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