"I voted Republican, without any hesitation. "
In that case you can have a clear conscience and no blame for what the Dems do.
As for the rest, I disagree with you -- unless you are implying that conservatives stayed home because they didn't like Bush' stand on illegal immigration. Those people can now be happy with the Dem Congress.
The fact that this: "At first, I thought that was the "drunk driving" stink. Recently I've begun to wonder whether there are not people in Mexico who have some sort of leverage over the younger Bush, due to something in his youth, and his partying south of the border. " even crossed your mind and you seriously entertained as a possibility is PATHETIC or worse.
Criticism accepted and taken.
But how do you explain it?...
"unless you are implying that conservatives stayed home because they didn't like Bush' stand on illegal immigration. Those people can now be happy with the Dem Congress."
Are you implying that the 3 or 4 conservatives that actually stayed home cost us the election and not the millions of swing voters that went Dem because of corruption and Iraq? Sure that makes total sense.