That Was Fast (Palin Genuflects to AIPAC)

The great Jim Lobe is reporting that Sarah Palin went to AIPAC yesterday for a laying-on of hands, with Joe Lieberman holding her train. AIPAC–surprise–pronounced her a great friend of Israel. Lobe says she blew off an important reception with Phyllis Schlafly to do so. Ah, yes, now whose religion is more important in politics? Lobe makes the appropriate conclusion about the strength of the Israel lobby. I'd throw in that it's the No-see-um lobby. Lieberman says nothing about Israel in his speech– that issue most important to him– and David Gergen on CNN says righteously after the speech that Lieberman should not have spoken so fulsomely of Sarah Palin in the speech because he does not know her–Gergen who denied that the Israel lobby has any power in the executive branch during the Walt and Mearsheimer foodfight, he never saw the Israel lobby. Well Gergen is misinformed, Lieberman does know her, and why does he know her? Who has got our Middle East policy by the balls?