Well, barring the second coming of Ronald Reagan, I tend to agree with you.
But.. I think we could say we were united behind GWB.
This time though, there is no unity except we strongly prefer NotMitt.
However, you can't run nobody against somebody and until there is unity behind somebody... nothing changes.
And this is where we are right now, still.
I completely agree. Unfortunately, we are likely to pay dearly for that vacuum.