This just hits so many points dead-on, particularly the Meiers issue. No, I wasn't a fan of hers, but that was really the fork in the road, where as the writer points out the folks who like Bush when he picks "one of ours" took the turn-off. There were so many postings then that picked-and-chose bits from her record, something which could have been done to prove ANY conservative wasn't 100% on the same page with us, that I kept wondering "I don't care for this person much, but I don't get this picayune crap."
From that point, when Bush asked us to take him on faith for the first time--WE failed HIM.
I'd comment on the current big issue but I simply don't want to deal with 100 stupid "Bush is a traitor" posts.