Soldiers: New Swing Voters (Another reason they're scared of Clark) [View All]

[John_H]

I don't recall this Washington Monthly article getting much attention in the national press.

AMERICA'S NEW SWING VOTERS

"For over two decades, the bond between the GOP and the U.S. military has been getting stronger. Since the invasion of Iraq, that may be changing...

This section of coastal Carolina is staunch GOP territory, with Rush Limbaugh on the radio and flag decals--American mostly, but a few confederate--on the back of the pick-up trucks....Six months ago, you simply didn't hear anything against Bush in Jacksonville, and if people had doubts about the war in Iraq, they kept them to themselves.

But these attitudes have begun to change. The local newspaper's editorial board, which has been vocally pro-Bush throughout his administration, ran an editorial at the beginning of October criticizing the administration's policies on Iraq, and suggesting that the campaign could end in a Vietnam-like quagmire. Soldiers' wives ask reporters why their husbands are still being sent off to Iraq, to face car bombs and chaos, months after the president said the war was over. Returned reservists, who saw their return dates pushed back again and again while they sat in a chaotic war zone, call the same radio station to say they didn't sign up for this sort of treatment, and they won't be reenlisting. If pressed, most people you talk to around here still say they'll support Bush. But their faith in him, and the GOP powers in Washington, has been rattled..."

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0311.wallace-wells.html

Think Ol' KKKarl isn't thinkinhg about the dem primaries in the South? Think he hasn't counted those Florida absentee ballots? Think he's not scared shitless about losing West Virginia and maybe even North Carolina?

Think this is yet another reason why he's currently got his hoes out in full attack mode against Clark?

People can and should pick their candidates for a host of reasons, but if beating Chimp figures high on your list of priorities, read this article.