Decline In Support For War Worries GOP (Even the south is sick of it)

Decline in Support for War Worries GOP

In Georgia, Even Republican Voters Are Voicing Unhappiness With Iraq Involvement

By Shailagh Murray
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, December 4, 2005; Page A07

CEDARTOWN, Ga. -- The annual Christmas parade is crawling down Main Street, and amid the marching bands and flatbed creches, Rep. Phil Gingrey (R) is throwing candy to kids from the cab of a pickup truck.

Glenda Mattox scowls at the festive scene. She is the type of voter who causes heartburn for Gingrey and other Republican lawmakers over the Iraq war. Slight and feisty, the former wife of a Vietnam War veteran, Mattox hangs out at the local American Legion hall and strongly supported the Iraq invasion. But she thinks the 2 1/2 -year war has dragged on too long, at the cost of too many lives.

Mattox voted for Gingrey, a two-term House member, and expects him to "do something" in Congress to help end the war. "We put them there, and we can take them out," she says. "He needs to get on with it."

Gingrey, a Marietta obstetrician, was first elected three years ago to represent this strongly Republican northwest Georgia district that includes small industrial towns, cotton and poultry farms, and some older suburbs around Atlanta. President Bush's mother, former first lady Barbara Bush, lent a hand during his campaign.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/03/AR2005120301239.html

Observations: This republican congressman is an obstetrician? Isn't that a pretty good career? Oh, how nice. He's reviving that old way, in which reg'lar folks went and did their duty by serving in Congress (think: "Davy, Davy Crockett!"), and then went home and back to their careers.

Right?

Oh... wait... this is his second term and it looks like he'll be running yet again...

And if Doc Gingrey had been a democrat candidate, Pigboy Karl Rove would no doubt have started a "whispering campaign" about his touching performance of "throwing candy to children"... it would've been whispered that "he's a child molester". Because Pigboy Karl did indeed do essentially that to at least one state-level democrat.

I won't go as far as to say "GOP routed by Dems" in 2006 -- No one can be certain of that as long as Diebold and other Voting Machine companies loyal to the Republicans remain in control of the voting process.

What I can say is that the more Bush, Cheney, DeLay et. al. attempt to tighten their grip on the reign of power, the more they will lose their base supporters, and in turn, their power.

The people, when finally alarmed enough, will rebel, fight back if necessary, and terminate the ruling party, and its' choke-hold on power.

end", already?