What strikes me about your story is that you felt that you had to defend Bush's cronyism and incompetence because you agreed with his policies. That's a pretty common Republican thing, it seems to me. But really, one could say I still agree with the war, and the tax cuts, because I think those were the right things to do for the country, but I don't think Mike Brown should be in charge of FEMA. But it seems like the Republican way is this all-or-nothing, No-Republican-can-do-wrong mindset.

You'll find on our side that we're not like that. We can agree with a politician's policies, and support those policies, and respect the politician, but still disagree with certain actions, and we don't have any trouble criticizing those actions.

In short, we don't subscribe to for-us-or-against-us type thinking. We have critical reasoning skills.

So. Welcome. We're glad to have you. And enjoy.