Is the GOP Getting Desperate?
by Charles Coughlin
A recent news article notes that George Bush has lost the support of Southern women. Three out of five now plan to vote Democrat. One life-long Republican woman in the South denounced Bush as incompetent and compared him to President Ulysses S. Grant, whose reputation ranks just slightly better than satan in most White Southern households. The Republicans relied on Bush’s popularity with Southern women in the past, but his folksy charm has been smothered by his incompetence, arrogance and perpetual blundering.
As if the loss of Southern female votes isn’t bad enough, Bush has even more trouble in Yankee-land. The defeat of a three-term incumbent politician in a primary is a rare event. Incumbents almost always win. But Joe Lieberman lost big time in Connecticut and everyone knows his support of Bush’s Iraq War was the reason. The ghost of Joe Lieberman’s political career was already beginning to haunt the 2006 election. What could be done to stop this oncoming electoral train wreck? Apparently some desperate neocon propaganda is being up-chucked on ABC right in time for the 9/11 anniversary and just weeks before the November election. (more…)