I posted this as an offhand response over at Joe Gandelman's, but when I read back over it I thought it was something I should also post here. So here goes.
------------
Y'know, it's not so much that I'm a "Bush supporter" as that my jaw dropped as far or farther, and a lot longer ago, at the way the Dems were acting.
After the shameless Republican burning-at-the-stake with Clinton I swore I would never vote for a Republican again so long as I live. I thought their conduct throughout was reprehensible. I also think Clinton, for all his flaws, was a pretty decent President, and middlin' moral and honest for the breed. The point of mentioning that is not to drag up that tired old argument again (DWL, as SDB would say), but just to show where I started in all this. And it probably reveals I'm a hothead, but that showed already, right? :)
The Democratic non-response, indeed what I see as willful fantasm, to the War on America is far worse than what the Republicans did, and far more dangerous to the country. That's what made my jaw drop, their foolishness and willful blindness. Their willingness, even eagerness, to sell out America in the interests of their ideology. "We are the World" didn't work and they can't face it.
Further, this whole business has made me reexamine just about everything I think and believe, like a lot of folks, I suspect. A whole lot of my core beliefs came up wanting when they were really pulled out into the sun and examined. Most of them were formed in callowish youthness and had lain, musty and unexamined, for a long, long time. I threw a lot of them out, and changed others as required, and that's a process that is very much continuing. Maybe I've changed my mind because I've learned something in 50 years, or maybe I'm getting early senility. But at this point I've seen, and lived, a whole lot of the agenda the Left is pushing. In retrospect, it has mostly come up very wanting.
I was wrong.