r.johnson: good question about how I have come to this position. When I voted for Bush the first time, I didn't necessarily agree with every single position he held. Most people are that way. Rarely does anyone ever vote for someone that they agree with entirely.

Over time, there started to be chinks in the armor. Unlike guys like David Kuo and Matthew Dowd, I was never "in love" with Bush so I had to take a pragmatic approach to these shortcomings.

Usually when someone is confronted with facts that are counter to their currently held beliefs, it takes some time to work through that cognitive dissonance, even when the facts are obvious.

I was starting to have some serious doubts about Bush in 2004, but in no way could vote for Kerry. He was just about the worst candidate that the Democrats could have had and the results prove it. A good Democrat candidate should have been able to defeat Bush that year.

I'd love to vote for a third-party candidate. But ballot access laws here in Georgia prevent me from doing that. I can't even vote for a third-party candidate for county dogcatcher. The deck is stacked against a third-party or independent candidate even getting on the ballot.