GOP Bleeds Military Support

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GOP Bleeds Military Support
by: Brandon Friedman
Wed Nov 05, 2008 at 16:00:05 PM EST


From the conservative-leaning Washington Times:

Many Republicans and some Republican voters under arms came to dislike what critics and supporters alike call the "Bush-Cheney war" in Iraq, just as a large majority of Americans in general came to conclude that the war wasn't worth waging and that Iraq was never an imminent threat.

"Republicans owned the military and the war issue, but you have so many younger people military dependents from all over the country stationed or living here in western Kentucky," said Kentucky-based Republican campaign strategist Tim Havrilek, a conservative evangelical Christian. "Patriotism and the flag don't cut it anymore, not with body bags being hauled off in plain view every week, military dependents feeling the squeeze of the economy just like everyone else, our military people going back to Iraq and Afghanistan five and six times.

"I've never seen more military people out working to elect a Democrat for president," he said.

Expect to see a lot more of this in the coming months.