Friday link dump: Mitt for McCain

Israel's new allies, counting Jews for Nixon, and Arizona gets serious about bigotry

By Alex Pareene

Why it makes a sad sort of sense for Mitt Romney to campaign for John McCain, a man who plainly hates him.
Tom Scocca was on fire today. I look forward to his eventual senate campaign.
“Remember where you were, when you could still laugh about teabaggers and racists and Arizonans, because funny time is almost over.“
Spencer Ackerman writes that Israel has staked its political future on the American evangelical right and business-friendly conservatives.
GOP bigwig Fred Malek counted Jews for Richard Nixon. This happened many years ago, and he has apologized. But Dave Weigel explains why it is still a big deal.
The Huffington Post has “cut ties” with its Washington Editor-at-Large, Hilary Rosen. Rosen, a Washington power-lobbyist, is currently doing crisis communications for BP. (Don’t worry, Arianna says they still have a “great personal relationship.”)