It has been a typically Democratic Party approach to attack state Rep. Sue Burmeister, R-Augusta, and her effort to require positive photo IDs of Georgia voters. The use of racially based attacks play to the Democratic Party base, and that is the only real objective of the effort.
Clearly, the sound logic of eliminating the suspected large numbers of Lazarus-back-from-the-dead voters is just plain wrong in the eyes of the Democratic leadership. What a sad commentary.
On the other hand, it is not surprising that Georgia's flaming left-wing Democratic U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney, following her vote for immediate withdrawal from Iraq, has not been publicly applauded by the same Dems who attack Ms Burmeister.
McKinney's dissenting position, only one of three in the entire Congress, is the real mark of the Democrats. Weak on defense, weak on truth, weak on staying power and weak on supporting our troops - but loud as attack dogs on anything Republican regardless of its appropriateness to fix a problem.
From my perspective, Republican Sue Burmeister is attempting to fix a legitimate problem, while Democrat Cynthia McKinney has staked her position not on logic or what is good for America, but rather on her own left-wing agenda. Why haven't the local Dems stepped up and claimed her as their own?
Robert Schloesser, Augusta
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