Michigan's congressional primary is Aug. 5th and Dems Mark Schauer and Sharon Renier are vying to take on GOP incumbent Rep. Tim Walberg.

The Battle Creek Enquirer profiled the two Dems this weekend.

Renier, who lost to Walberg by 4 percentage points two years ago, says she's running in part to end the war in Iraq. Here's an excerpt from the Enquirer profile:

Renier said no one knows the pain of losing a child like a mother, which influences her opinions on the war in Iraq.

"We've got a stupid-ass war going on in Iraq," she said. "Who do you think wants to get this thing over and done with and be done with the boys and their toys and all the nonsense? It's the mother."

People are starting to forget about the war and the daily dangers men and women in the U.S. armed forces face overseas, Renier said.

"The war started out on page one, and now it's on page four and five," she said. "I think we need to bring (Iraqi) troops here to train them because right now, their troops get to go home at night to their wife and kids. I think they need to sink or swim, but I think we've made a terrible mess of their country."

Schauer, who's been a state legislator since 1997 and a state senator since 2003, focuses on the economy in his profile.

"Our country is in such dire straits and we are represented by someone who is so out of touch with the needs of this district and this state," Schauer said. "When I see Tim Walberg just blindly support this president on trade agreements or being in the pocket of the oil companies or being an obstructionist on solving the health care crisis, standing on the sidelines in the mortgage crisis, I just in good conscience can't sit on the sidelines knowing that I could be doing even more to get results for this district." ... If he's the winner in both August and November, Schauer said his top three priorities in Congress will be, "jobs, jobs, jobs." ...

"I'm going to Washington to be an advocate for my state. I'm going to be a pain in the neck to my leadership because I'm going to demand that Michigan gets its fair share," he said. "I'll work with members of our delegation, Democrats and Republicans. I have a history of working with folks across the aisle... to get things done."

Read the full Renier profile

Read the full Schauer profile