By Josh Pasek
The Republican Jewish Coalition has released a new series of ads in their misleading “I Used to be a Democrat” campaign. In rather impressive form, they sought out a number of well-known Jewish neo-conservatives for this series of advertisements — namely Ari Fleischer and Dennis Prager (1). While both claim to have once been Democrats, the RJC’s own biography of Fleischer notes his strong connections to the Republican party dating back to 1983, only one year after he graduated from Middlebury College (2), and Prager has been broadcasting his neo-conservative Jewish radio show for over 25 years and is a regular columnist for Townhall.com, a website which lauds itself as “the first conservative web community” (3).
We at RJCWatch have one really simple question for the RJC: Are there really so few Democrats becoming Republicans today that you need to look to neo-conservatives who switched affiliation in the 1980’s?
