Southern Women Turning From GOP

[Mark E. Smith]

AP

MACON, Ga. - President Bush's once-solid relationship with Southern women is on the rocks.

"I think history will show him to be the worst president since Ulysses S. Grant," said Barbara
Knight, a self-described Republican since birth and the mother of three. "He's been an
embarrassment."

In the heart of Dixie, comparisons to Grant, a symbol of the Union, is the worst sort of insult,
especially from a macon woman who voted for Bush in 2000 but turned away in 2004.

Now, anger over the Iraq war and frustration with the country's direction have taken a toll on
the president's popularity and stirred dissatisfaction with the Republican-held Congress.

Republicans on the ballot this November have reason to worry. A recent AP-Ipsos poll found
that three out of five Southern women surveyed said they planned to vote for a Democrat in
the midtern elections. With control of the Senate and House in the balance, such a seismic
shift could have dire consequences for the GOP.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14714800/from/RS.1/

[Peace Patriot]

1. If you base your political commentary on an election in which 80% of the

votes were "counted" by two private corporations, one of them (Diebold) headed by a Bush-Cheney campaign chair and major fundraiser, and the other (ES&S), a spinoff of the first, initially funded by a rightwing billionaire who also gave one million dollars to an extremist 'christian group' that touts the death penalty for homosexuals, and the votes were all "counted" with TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code, with virtually no audit/recount controls--in an electronic voting scam designed by the biggest crooks in Congress, Tom Delay and Bob Ney, to "re-elect" Bush and Bushites; and, if you further consult exit polls that the war profiteering corporate news monopolies, acting in concert on election night, FALSIFIED to FIT the results of the Republican electronic voting corporations' secret formulae, and later LIED that the original exit polls were wrong (Bush lost) because Bushites are shy people and didn't want anybody to know they were voting for Bush, and so wouldn't admit it to pollsters, a lie for which there is zero evidence (and much evidence to the contrary)...

...then you are going to come up with some screwy commentary that southern and other conservative women only just now realized that Bush is an asshole.

Any political commentary that silently accepts these fraudulent election conditions will lead you astray one way or another--in this case, it is leading us to expect a different outcome, and to believe that we have a healthy, normal political system, in which elections will reflect the will of the people. Then, when Bushites are once again Diebolded into office, they will consult Karl Rove's "talking points" and tell you that it must have been gay marriage, or brown immigrants, or terra-terra-terra, or their "invisible" get-out-the-vote campaign "in the churches" that caused this miraculous Bushite "comeback victory."

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Throw Diebold, ES&S and all election theft machines into 'Boston Harbor' NOW! Bust the Machines--Vote by Absentee Ballot this November! FLOOD election officials with MOUNTAINS of paper Absentee Ballot votes, and FORCE reform NOW!

[Mark E. Smith]

2. Nothing upsets some people...

... like good news.

But thanks for the lecture. I'd never ever heard that stuff before.

[IndianaGreen]

3. "George Bush was placed where he is by the Lord,"

Remember that the article deals with the shifting allegiance of Southern women voters away from GOP, but here is an example of why Bush always has a rock solid 30% in all the polls:

Still, some Southern women remain stalwart supporters of the president and the Republican Party. At a watermelon festival in Chickamauga, in the mountains of northwest Georgia, substitute teacher Clydeen Tomanio said she remains committed to the party she's called home for 43 years.

"There are some people, and I'm one of them, that believe George Bush was placed where he is by the Lord," Tomanio said. "I don't care how he governs, I will support him. I'm a Republican through and through."

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/07/southern.women.ap/index.html