On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:17:01 -0500, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote:
What's the lesson ? Is it that 9/11 scared the liberal out of a
Jewish guy or that the GOP is a better friend to Israel during
turbulent times ?

Nope. And neither happened with Silver. ...

"I'm a 9/11 Republican."
-- Ron Silver

FWIW -

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/01/mo...eleb.html?_r=1

He still believed in and supported
many "liberal" causes and organizations, but if you will, apparently found the
hypocrisy in the Dem party and its "circles" to be less than that of the GOP and
its "circles."

His main point of contention with the Dems, the one he himself cited,
was that Dems were soft on terrorism. I don't know where you come up
with hypocrisy either Dem or GOP.

"Even though I am a well-recognized liberal on many issues confronting our
society today, I find it ironic that many human rights advocates and outspoken
members of my own entertainment community are often on the front lines to
protest repression, for which I applaud them but they are usually the first ones
to oppose any use of force to take care of these horrors that they
catalogue repeatedly." - Ron Silver at the GOP Convention

"Mr. Silver said he admired Senator Kerry, whom he described as honorable, but
added he did not think the candidate represents the rank and file of the
Democratic Party, most of whom, he said, 'I think are Howard
Dean-Kucinich-Sharpton-Michael Moore people,' the kind of people 'who like the
projection of American force for humanitarian reasons, so they'll support
Clinton's intervention in Bosnia, but they don't like it in support of our own
defense.'" (From the NYT article, above)

HTH,
R