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You touch on my own thoughts precisely and with much greater eloqunce.
I believe that people are waking up to the unpleasant truth that they've been charmed, and bullied, and finally, shamefully, scared into supporting a man that they don't like.
George W. Bush is not unlike a car mechanic of a certain stripe. He's the sort that does only adequate service and is over-priced, but is folksy and speaks with some authority. Then one day you take your car in after it's been making an odd little squeaking sound, and he looks you in the eye and lies that it's the manifold and it's gonna cost you two thousand dollars to fix it. Then and only then, faced with blatant dishonesty and incompetence, are you going to realize that what you thought was personability was in reality a certain craven cunning, and his authority was just his pre-greased overalls.
