"Mike Huckabee sparked condemnation from national Jewish groups and the president with his
controversial contention that by agreeing to a nuclear deal with Iran, Barack Obama will take “the Israelis and march them to the door of the oven”.
Yet one small but influential group – consisting of Jewish Republicans who live in the crucial early voting state of Iowa – is perfectly fine with it.
Will Rogers, chairman of the Polk County Republican Party, told the Guardian that while Huckabee may have “stepped the rhetoric up which may have crossed the line with certain voters”, he himself had noticed no local outrage.
While Rogers made clear he did not speak for the Jewish community in Iowa, and said “there’s a certain sensitivity for remarks” like those made by Huckabee, he said that in his Republican circles there was much more focus on the controversial deal than on any words uttered by the former Arkansas governor.
As Rogers noted, a majority of Republicans are “very unhappy” about this foreign policy initiative."
Guardian
Yet one small but influential group – consisting of Jewish Republicans who live in the crucial early voting state of Iowa – is perfectly fine with it.
Will Rogers, chairman of the Polk County Republican Party, told the Guardian that while Huckabee may have “stepped the rhetoric up which may have crossed the line with certain voters”, he himself had noticed no local outrage.
While Rogers made clear he did not speak for the Jewish community in Iowa, and said “there’s a certain sensitivity for remarks” like those made by Huckabee, he said that in his Republican circles there was much more focus on the controversial deal than on any words uttered by the former Arkansas governor.
As Rogers noted, a majority of Republicans are “very unhappy” about this foreign policy initiative."
Guardian
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