working within the confines of democracy. George W Bush was elected President.

I guess this is a common misconception but this did NOT happen, as Mark and Obie have pointed out. He LOST the election, and then had it handed back to him in the worst piece of judicial malfeasance in the history of the Supreme Court, imho.

As for left-wing hypocricy, give me a break. I'm generally on the left side, so right-wing hypocricy leaps out at me in technicolor. In fact, a score of really gross examples occur to me even now, but I don't want to go there. OTOH, left-wing hypocricy always strikes me as mild and emminently forgiveable. I assume that the other side sees things exactly the other way round.

John Prine, "You forgive us, we'll forgive you, We'll forgive each other till we all turn blue, then we'll whistle and go fishing in heaven."