Let's Give It Up For Senator Lindsey Graham At The Republican Jewish Coalition Here In Washington

++The occasion was where all the GOP presidential candidates talk to the Republican Jewish community.

++Lindsey Graham didn't mention Israel "because you all know where I stand." He did say he would move our embassy to Jerusalem. And he went on about how he would defeat ISIS and oust Assad.

++But then he broke the script. Over 70% of Republican Jews favor choice and are not anti-abortion. Graham raised the issue indirectly about why young people are not voting Republican. "You don't want abortion in case of rape or incest. You expect a woman who has been raped to carry the child to term. Then there is no way a young person could support that." He went on to say we can't win if people think that's our position. He was following Ted Cruz who takes that very position.

++While Lindsey Graham was his usual hawkish self, he didn't pander and was comfortable and knowledgeable about his audience. Give him points for candor.

++Another candidate in another venue--Ben Carson--torpedoes his evangelical support when he talked about Terri Schaivo and how you have to make the person as comfortable as possible before you pull the plug. Then he said the hateful rhetoric against Planned Parenthood triggered the shooter. At which Troy Newman,Ted Cruz' cheerleader and advocate for killing abortion doctors, said that cost Carson the evangelical vote and he may have been right.