I make not a single excuse; if I am forced to choose between two social evils the I should choose the one that is honest about itself. (I, however, do reject that premise; I may vote third-party or write-in, and am not therefore so constrained.)
Furthermore, I think that GW Bush did a decent job on his first term, for the most part -- I cannot, however, condone the first of the bailouts: the airlines... If I had been a bit more cynical I would not have voted for him in term-2, his "I had to destroy the free market to save it" was, and is, reprehensible.
After Obama's election and the demonstrable difficulties f getting any government entity to respect the constitution I now think that, barring a divine intervention, bloodshed is the only answer. To that end I pray for my country: God may yet be merciful. But if worse comes to worse, then i am ready to spill blood in battle with domestic enemies of the constitution.
Obama lied too in the run up to his election — badly — with his pretense of ratcheting right. Mitt at least gave lipservice to some sort of self awareness of the need for an attitude shift when he talked about being “severely conservative” (which from his vantage point is what mushy moderate looks like). If that’s shallow, then what Obama did isn’t hardly even a film of water.