As far as the adults who voted for a far left President with absolutely no experience, you witnessed the power of the media. Akin to Jim Jones. He promised his flock the promised land, too. Yes we can. When you attack people as this media attacked the republican candidate, at some point, many of the weaker people lose sight of the goal of saving the country and just vote for the cool people. Mistakes were made. The election three weeks ago started to correct that disastrous mistake.
Being the "mother of new voter" can you tell me what you pointed to about Bush's presidency, and his actions, that you used to convince the "new voter" that voting for McCain, or any other GOP candidate, was the right choice?
Sure, Bush is for some conservative ideas but his inability to sell conservatism (because I don't think he actually believes in it) is what hurt conservatism more than what he did. IOW, it was more what he didn't do than what he did vis-a-vis conservatism that led to Obama.
Look at the first two years of the GOP Congress that he presided over. What were his major concerns? Immigration, No Child Left Behind (massive intrusion of the Dept of Ed in our lives), Drugs for seniors (another massive increase in the govt.)
He pushed the Patriot Act which was basically written by Biden. Bush played with the liberal establishment instead of fighting them. One only has to look at his vetoes to see he NEVER put a stop to the massive growth of govt.