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plays well with rank-and-file voters, he
paign is top-heavy with big-name
said.
Jewish advisors.
Marshall Wittman put it this way:
So in the McCain campaign, the list
"He really proved his mettle in the
of Jews with influence is a short one.
Jewish community when he showed
It's headed by Marshall Wittman and
[conservative columnist and former
former Reagan chief of staff Ken
GOP
candidate Patrick] Buchanan the
Duberstein.
door."
But Jewish voters may see things
The Buchanan flap was a defining
differently. That's the view of Rosalie
moment for the candidates, he added.
Zalis, a longtime Jewish Republican
Bush flubbed the test when he refused
activist who served as policy adviser to
to read Buchanan out of the party,
former California Gov. Pete Wilson.
while McCain didn't hesitate.
Zalis, one of McCain's highest-pro-
"Bush said, 'I need every vote I can
file Jewish supporters, said that the
get,'
so he refused to reject Buchanan,"
Jewish Republican elite is lining up
Wittman
said. "McCain took a differ-
with Bush because they're "scared"
ent
approach.
That may be the
they'll be left behind by his accelerat-
ing bandwagon.
"They feel Bush's nomina-
tion is inevitable, and they
want to be there because they
see him as winner," she said.
"That's understandable, but
its very unfortunate."
But at the grass-roots
level, she said, McCain is the
candidate who has the best
chance of boosting the
Jewish GOP vote in
November.
Many Jewish voters are
worried about Bush's lack of
foreign policy expertise, she
said; some still associate him
with what they see as his
father's perceived hostile poli-
cies toward Israel.
In addition to his Israel
support, she added that
McCain's record on domestic Arizona Sen. John McCain answers questions after
the Republican debate in Tempe, Ariz., Nov. 21.
issues is no more conserva-
A4i.Cain's
wife Cindy looks on.
tive than Bush's and that the
Arizona lawmaker is a lot
moment that leads grassroots Jewish
more open.
Republicans to defy the party estab-
"None of the Republican candidates
lishment and go with McCain."
are pro-choice," she said. "Among
Such integrity also was apparent, he
them, McCain has been the most hon-
added,
when the candidate went to the
est about were he's coming from. And
Conference
of Presidents of Major
he has said he wouldn't change Roe v.
American
Jewish
Organizations recent-
Wade."
ly and declared his opposition to releas-
Citing Bush's claim that Jesus is his
ing convicted spy Jonathan J. Pollard.
favorite philosopher, she said, "There's
And on policy issues, he said,
more to worry about him in terms of
McCain will attract Jews "because he's
church-state concerns." So McCain,
the foremost advocate for internation-
she said, "could do extraordinarily well
alism in the Republican party.
in the Jewish community."
On Kosovo, for instance, he under-
Back in Phoenix, Sid Rosen is try-
stood
both the strategic and humanitar-
ing to nudge the movement along by
ian aspects of our involvement, when
re-registering Jewish Democrats on
many other Republicans were silent."
behalf of his old friend. It's been an
Yet, Wittman knows that with the
easy sell, he said, listing several promi-
party establishment — and the Jewish
nent rabbis and Jewish philanthropists.
GOP elite — overwhelmingly behind
Dr. Gene Schupak, a retired
Bush, supporters of McCain face diffi-
Scottsdale physician and another
cult odds. "But," he said hopefully,
major McCain supporter, is with him.
"the grass roots are likely to see things
Campaign finance might turn off the
differently." Cl
big-name Jewish Republicans, but it

