If Pat Buchanan had authored this column by Democratic Sen. Fritz Hollings, many people would file it under “further evidence of Buchanan’s anti-Semitism.” Hollings basically says that President Bush went to war in Iraq to win Jewish votes. Here’s the key allegation: “He came to office imbued with one thought — re-election. Bush felt tax cuts would hold his crowd together and spreading democracy in the Mideast to secure Israel would take the Jewish vote from the Democrats.” This is just stupid. Bush offered many justifications for war with Iraq. Perhaps some of them were and are debatable. But reducing the entire lot to a desire to “take the Jewish vote from the Democrats” is unbelievable and insulting. Quick question: Will Inez Tenenbaum, the Democratic candidate to replace Hollings as the next senator from South Carolina, now condemn these remarks–or does she agree with them? I’ll contact her press secretary and report back.