Well, I don't think you or I actually believe that George Bush was anything but a puppet. Cheney and Rove have been running the country. Rove (not Cheney) believe in lofty. They believe in doing whatever it takes. Torture, suspending habeous corpus, wire-tapping. I imagine it's too much to hope that this might be a wake-up call. It took a brain tumor for Lee Atwater to realize that he'd been acting like a total asshole on steroids.

McCain really did let things go berserk, and given his gracious speech when he conceded the election, I'm wondering if he had his own bout of soul-searching.