On the bash Rush Limbaugh and bash Alan Keyes threads for starters.
Obviously you haven't seen the treatment Keyes threads (no matter the subject matter) have received from certain 'Bushie' FReepers for the last year or so. I wouldn't call them 'hoards'...or even 'hordes', although their numbers do seem to have grown of late. But no matter their numbers, their tactics and bile towards Keyes have been remarkable.
One thing that sets most Bush supporters aside from the "Keysters" is they know they won't get perfection from any politician.
I know lots of 'Keyesters'. In the main, they are quite realistic in their expectations of politicians. I, personally, expected a third-way politician in Bush, triangulating from the right, instead of Clinton's triangulation from the left. I got just what I expected. (If anything, I was a bit too optimistic about what point he would triangulate from, but I'm an optimist by nature.;-)
From what I've seen they are more than willing to acknowledge legitimate criticism when warrented.
Many are. Some here aren't at all.
That doesn't mean they want to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
I agree. We have to live with the reality of what we have, and make the best of it.
Regards,
EV