Coming 'round

Democrats who oppose the war have said this for a while now, and every time they do so they get accused of not supporting the troops:

As Liz Larrison cooks up breakfast for customers at her family's diner in a farm town long friendly to the Republican Party, she listens as the regulars sling political opinions as easily as she slings ham steaks.

Increasingly, the talk these days revolves around Iraq, and it is the kind of talk that could spell trouble for the GOP.

"Nobody is against the people fighting the war. I think you'll hear that everywhere," she said. "We're just against it going on and on."

Larrison is a self described independent who votes Republican has decided this year not to back a Republican for Congress.

While this shift isn't the same as a life long Republican changing sides, it still will provide a substantial hurdle for Republicans to overcome in 2006. And the more they lash out at this viewpoint as unpatriotic and against the troops, the more voters they will end up alienating.