I debated a guy today that is a "harsh conservative", and he pretty much said he was going to vote for Kaine instead of Kilgore in our Virginia election because Kilgore was too soft on abortion (He believes Kilgore supports the "morning-after pill in cases of rape, if the rape is reported in 7 days -- I don't know for sure, but I know Kilgore is a "rape/incest" exception pro-lifer).
His argument was that a republican legislature was less likely to give into the policy requests of a liberal than they would for a fellow republican.
I don't agree with his action, but I do seem to remember that we spent less money when congress was controlled by the republicans and the white house by the democrats.
The argument against that is the judges. If it weren't for the stupid judges trying to be kings or dictators, we could make rational decisions on our candidates. Or so the argument goes.
You are so right. We had to stay together and fight when Clinton was President. If he had proposed the billions of pork or his own under qualified attorney for the court we would be so up in arms... But no, Bush does way worse and his kool aid drinking sheep run us all right off the cliff to our doom.