BUSH Loses Southern Woman - 3 Out of 5 Will Vote For A Democrat

[kpete]

War turns southern women away from GOP By SHANNON McCAFFREY, Associated Press Writer
Thu Sep 7, 6:07 AM ET
President Bush’s once-solid relationship with Southern women

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 Associated Press-Ipsos poll found that three out of five Southern women surveyed said they planned to vote for a Democrat in the midterm elections. With control of the Senate and House in the balance, such a seismic shift could have dire consequences for the GOP.

Democrats need to gain 15 seats in the House and six in the Senate to seize control.

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

[raccoon]

1. Yippee! Sounds like some people are finally pulling their heads

out of their arses.

[ThomWV]

2. I Hope They Cut Off Southern Men Until They Vote Democrat Too

The power of the purse, or something like that ....

[RaleighNCDUer]

6. The Lysistrata factor --

sounds Greek to me.

[LaurenG]

3. I don't think bush will ever wake up

When you look at what he's done and how poorly he's managed EVERYTHING I can't imagine an intelligent person voting republican in the next election.

We have no balance in Washington. Imagine that! lol

[warrens]

4. Holy shit

A Republican who knows history.

[katinmn]

5. Now watch Bush play the "God talks to me" card again to try

to win them back into the fold. (If you don't follow me, you are a bad Christian.) Worked last time, but I hope people are smarter now!

We shall see many anti-gay and anti-reproductive rights ads in the south.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/2006/State%20Polls/August%202006/bibleLiterallyTrue.htm

75% in Arkansas, Alabama Believe Bible Literally True
Only 22% in Vermont, Massachusetts
"As expected, strong connections exist in most of the states surveyed between the percentage of those who answered affirmatively on the Bible question and their positions on abortion and same-sex marriage."

[Peace Patriot]

7. 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!

[warrens]

8. Add in the Mortgage Moms

And things are really starting to break away from Bushco. If you thought you ever saw negative ads, just wait til next month. This is going to be the dirtiest election in history, because the GOP has nothing positive to say about anything.

[tallahasseedem]

9. Who says that they have a choice?

Dont forget Diebold machines are plentiful here in the South.

[Hugin]

10. Zooooooooooooom!

Yeah!

:thumbsup:

[Peace Patriot]

11. Some thoughts on "downer" posts--and I admit that my post above is a

downer.

I just don't think we should be basing our political strategy on anything but truth and reality. It's certainly possible that all women, including southern women, are more pissed off than they were before, and if that anger translates into throwing Diebold, ES&S and all election theft machines into 'Boston Harbor'--or a Louisiana levee--that would be great. But I WILL NOT accept ANY political commentary that PRESUMES that Bush won the 2004 election, and FAILS TO EXAMINE the NON-TRANSPARENT and FRAUDULENT nature of the voting system that was put in place during the 2002-2004 period, with the southern states being the worst of all Diebold/ES&S states.

Period. If they think Bush won, they are pulling your nose. And AP is THE worst offender for colluding on this fraudulent election system and the war profiteering corporate news monopolies' fraudulent exit polls. So, on what basis, do you presume that they are telling you the truth now? It is much more reasonable to presume that they are setting you up for a gay marriage/brown immigrant/terra-terra-terra/"invisible" get-out-the-vote campaign "in the churches" Bushite COMEBACK.

It may spark American Revolution II, when it happens. I hope it does. But it IS going to happen. They did NOT fast-track all this NON-TRANSPARENT, SECRETLY PROGRAMMED, EXTREMELY INSIDER HACKABLE voting machinery all over the nation for NO REASON! The elections this fall are wide open to fraud. Nothing has been done about it. It IS going to happen. And all those southern ladies who voted that nasty little twerp Bush out of office in 2004 are going to have their votes stolen AGAIN.

We must wake up to this! We MUST! Otherwise, it's going to destroy the progressive majority in this country AGAIN, this time maybe FOREVER. Demoralized, depressed, disenfranchised. Beaten. Powerless. Convinced that a tiny rightwing lunatic minority is the majority.

Anyway, I tend to hate people who chime in with depressing news--on a post that should be encouraging. But this is one bit of bad news that I think it is essential for people to be reminded of. Not to discourage anyone--but to focus us on reality and what we have to do to change this. And I think we cannot wait. We must rebel NOW--we must change this NOW--by a MASSIVE citizen BOYCOTT of the voting machines this fall. Vote by Absentee Ballot!

[Hugin]

12. .

I read this post and appreciate what you are saying.

Keep up the fight!

[Hidden Stillness]

13. Women Lead the Way, Again

The relationship of the Republican Party to women generally, has been getting more and more tenuous over the years, and as a matter of fact, the very long-term trend, unbroken since the 1950s, has been of women getting moderately more liberal/feminist, etc., and moving from majority Republican to majority Democratic. Further, this reminds me of a fun "internal memo" from the mid-1990s that I heard about from Joe Madison on the radio. Somebody had gotten an internal study report, conducted by Republicans on their membership, that found that women and black Republicans were not nearly as conservative as their white, especially rich, male members. "Oddly," this groundbreaking study was never followed up on by the larger corporate media, even though it is shocking and blows the lid off things, etc.

Although the Yahoo story, typically, overemphasizes the Iraq war, I know that women all across the country who "were" Republicans have been disgusted at the lack of help for middle class and poor people, price-gouged as never before, who suddenly cannot pay their bills and who get no help, no price-gouging legislation, etc., who are angry at the financial gutting of the public school system, the lack of good, non-college-degree, jobs, etc., etc.; a totally corporate Republican agenda, which women have never supported. Also, as the "new neo-con center" of the Republican Party gets more insane, destroys our reputation around the world, and kills our entire economy, it makes people step back and critically examine things, as they perhaps have never done before. My favorite quote from the article was this, that I think was the greatest trend: "I'm going to go for the moderate, and these days that tends to be Democrats," one of them said. Finally, they can't even paint us with the "extremist/too liberal" brush, and so as people more and more are just simply facing facts--we win.