[wludavid]

Unfortunately, a lot of it comes down to game theory. "We won't unite until they decide they want to." Who will cave first? It will probably have to be the dems, but I hope that W doesn't take that as tacit approval of the way he's run the country the last 4 years. I'm reminded of the screaming and "shrieking" and name-calling from the Right when Clinton was in office, and I didn't see the polarization that we see today.

I didn't see one moment when he "turned his back" either, but he has certainly earned this divided populace. I didn't vote for him either time, but I was glad it wasn't Gore in office when the planes his the towers. He was the right man for the job and had the undivided support of the nation and the great majority of the industrialized world. To say that the Left has always been at his throat is a twisting of the truth. There are always name-calling detractors. Bush's actions have multiplied his shriekers a hundredfold.