What's the matter with Kansas?

I've never understood middle class people voting Republican. Why would you vote against your own best interest?

With everything we've learned this past week I cannot understand why anyone in the military would support Bush.

The Democrats proposed a 3.5% pay raise for the troops. Bush said 3% was sufficient. (I suppose food stamps can continue to fill the gap.) The Democrats proposed increasing the pay to $40 per month for surviving family members of a soldier killed in Iraq. Bush said no. According to NBC news there is new body armor called Dragon Skin that is superior to the current body armor worn by the troops. The Defense Department banned it. The Democrats want time lines to force the Iraqi government to get it together and run their country. Bush says no. The Democrats want to bring the troops home. Bush says no and calls an escalation a "surge". When Republicans were in power Walter Reed was allowed to fester. One Republican congressman and his wife saw the squalor and stopped going because it was too upsetting. But did nothing about it because he didn't want to "hurt" the President. The President has extended the tours of soldiers from 12 to 15 months. He sent troops into harms way without proper equipment.

How can any soldier continue to support someone who doesn't support him or her?