Southern women turn from Bush: "Worst President since Ulysses S. Grant"

[Human Torch]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060907/ap_on_re_us/southern_women

By SHANNON McCAFFREY, Associated Press Writer Thu Sep 7, 6:07 AM ET

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.

In recent years, Southern women have been some of Bush's biggest fans, defying the traditional gender gap in which women have preferred Democrats to Republicans. Bush secured a second term due in large part to support from 54 percent of Southern female voters while women nationally favored Democrat John Kerry, 51-48 percent.

"In 2004, you saw an utter collapse of the gender gap in the South," said Karen Kaufmann, a professor of government at the University of Maryland who has studied women's voting patterns. White Southern women liked Bush because "he spoke their religion and he spoke their values."

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.



:rofl:

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Ouch! Both are drunken Notherners. n/t

[bluerum]

2. Big deal. They voted him into office. How will they vote 11/06-/08.

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. In spite of the bogus accent & swagger jr is being called out as

a yankee? That's about the worst thing you can be called down there.

[tabasco]

4. Grant was a good man.

Bush is an evil man.

[eleny]

5. Whereas the people of Iraq would have Sherman come to mind

[Missy M]

6. Well they have it wrong...

he is the WORST PRESIDENT EVER!!!

[Vickers]

7. "he spoke their religion and he spoke their values."

Yeah, how's that workin' out for ya? :eyes:

[LostInAnomie]

8. Exactly

They were sold that bullshit for two elections and are now having buyers remorse. Too fucking bad.

What the hell did they expect?

[LostInAnomie]

9. I get so sick of hearing about repuke buyer's remorse.

They knew who and what they were voting for in 2000 and 2004. It's too fucking late now to throw your hands in the air and plead ignorance.

[Human Torch]

10. bluerum hit upon the key issue here (reply #2 above)...

...talk really is cheap. I don't care as much about what former Bush voters have to say as I care about how they plan to vote.

:patriot:

[Cosmocat]

13. ABSOLUTELY ...

This guy was CLEARLY a disaster back in 99 ...

I have said this 100 times at least ...

Anyone who voted for this guy the first time is too unaware to have the right to vote until proven otherwise ... They should be forced to complete the same requirements as anyone who comes to this country as an immigrant, the tests and all, before they should be allowed to vote again ...

Anyone who voted for this guy in 2004 is too stupid to every be able to vote again ... End story ... Voting privileges revoked forever ...

[RebelOne]

11. I'm a Southern woman in Georgia

and I have always hated the SOB.

[Momgonepostal]

12. Be sure to read the last 2 paragraphs

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."
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MY Lord would never place someone like George Bush in power. I also love how she says she doesn't care how he governs. Why would you blindly support someone who you feel is doing a poor job? What a brainwashed little ninny.

[AspenRose]

15. "I don't care how he governs"???????

:nuke:

Lady! Christians are SUPPOSED to judge a tree by its fruit and act accordingly, holding fast to what is good! What is the MATTER with you?!? What in the WORLD has * done that has been GOOD?!? AAAAAUGH!!!!!!

:spank: :banghead:

[AspenRose]

14. Hope the upcoming terra! terra! terra! alerts won't change their minds....

(you KNOW they're coming, those multiple terra! alerts. All-terra, all the time until November.)


BOO!