""And yet I cannot count the number of democrats I have heard say they find themselves longing for Bush/Cheney""
You can't count them because they're not there. The haloed one's approval ratings are still topping 60%, and he won with 52% of the vote.. Until that begins to change the buyer's remorse stories will be just that, stories.
Excuse me? You don't know me, do not assume that “they are not there”, they most certainly are! And I have spoken to countless numbers of them.