You know, it is really upsetting to see people here being so contemptuous of a good chunk of the Bush voters, as if they were all one monolithic right wing Christian militarist gun nut group.

I know a lot of old school Republicans who voted for him as the "lesser of two evils" the same way old school Democrats did for Kerry. Sure, Bush's conservative base was stronger than Kerry's liberal base this time out. Wake up and smell the coffee Democrat loyalists--your liberal base has shrunk dramatically in the last several decades, because you abandoned the left wing of the party, and went chasing after the soccer mom and NASCAR dad. They ain't your base. Your fantasies about going for the middle, centrist, moderate swing voters have been delusional at best. That sad, tired old strategy not only hasn't worked, it has given the Republicans power they haven't had in over a 100 years.