"Bible Belt" boosts Bush, Republicans (moran alert)

[hadrons]

man, you've got to read this:

DUBLIN, Georgia (Reuters) - Retired school teacher Martha Bobbitt thinks President George W. Bush is a good Christian with the right values. If he's gone wrong in Iraq, it won't change her vote.

Opinion polls suggest Bush's Republican Party may lose control of the U.S. House of Representatives and possibly the Senate in national elections on Tuesday, dragged down by the unpopularity of the war in Iraq.

But for millions of Americans, support for Bush runs deeper than the debate over the direction of the war on terrorism and can be summed up by what his backers view as old-fashioned conservative values.

....

"I support the president. I think he is a fine Christian man and his morals and values represent our country to a wonderful degree," said Bobbitt, in a view echoed by others at a recent rally in Dublin for Republican congressional candidate Mac Collins.

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The chaos and bloodshed in Iraq have not swayed the president's most ardent supporters.

Britt Smith, 48, and his son Greg, 20, both served with the Georgia National Guard in Iraq on a one-year tour that ended in May. Neither was hurt, though Britt's wife Peggy recalls the anguish of waiting for news, especially the times when she got word that a brigade member had been killed.

"Our family has been put through so many trials with Iraq," she said at the family home in Dublin where an American flag flew in the front yard.

Peggy Smith was scathing about the attitude of Democrats to the war. "I don't think the Democrats want us to win over there so they can say that this is Bush's failed policy," she said.

http://reuters.myway.com/article/20061106/2006-11-06T062210Z_01_N05193886_RTRIDST_0_POLITICS-USA-ELECTIONS-GEORGIA-DC.html

[kurth]

1. It's a freakin' CULT

Those people are hopeless.

[reichstag911]

2. Cue the dueling banjos... {nt}

[acmavm]

5. Really. I bet marrying a cousin is considered good taste in

them there parts.

[reichstag911]

7. Yee ha!

Praise the lord and pass the pesticides!!!

[Jackpine Radical]

3. I listened to a BBC program the other night with interviews

of people like this. It made me want to bang my head against something, but I resisted since I was driving at the time.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

4. There are just some people who reason and logic

will never trouble their mind.

[electron_blue]

6. imo - these people are not separated from their politicians.

they've totally internalized Bush, so an attack on him is an attack on them.

[msongs]

8. war, rape , murder, torture -> good christian values? for her they are nt

[bemildred]

9. Any relation to John? nt