He related to me how this dear new friend just turned on him in an instant in white-hot rage because he wouldn't agree with her that it was all Bush's fault. Furthermore, she was so filled with venom at anything Republican that she couldn't slow down or stop her unmerciful tongue lashing of my conservative former CA friend!!!
He was devastated and wanted me to reassure him that this attitude hasn't become widespread. I could not. Furthermore, I had to try to prepare him psychologically for the depressing news that's going to decimate conservatism as well as Republicanism for at least the next two and a half years!
The pendelum that swung so high and hard in 1980 for Reagan Republicanism/conservatism and against creepy Carterism/Demonicrats and that swung our way again in 1994, is headed back the other way right now and is going to knock a whole lot of good that's been done into the deep pit!!!
So as it says in Edgar Allen Poe's "The Pit And The Pendelum," "Quoth the raven, nevermore." Conservatism will be driven from the Republican Party for a time before making a smashing recovery in the future, after the Dems screw everything up beyond all known recognition!!!
You are so right. The public are incensed about gas prices, and they want Republicans out of office...