The Upside...

The upside to President Bush winning a second term was that Republicans can't blame all that is going on in the world right now on John Kerry... which you know damn well they would have done.

1. Everything that is going wrong in Iraq right now? Kerry's weak stance on the war is to blame, eroding support for the troops, and encouraging the terrorists... with some help from 8 years of Bill Clinton, of course.
2. High oil prices? Kerry's fault. George Bush knew how to handle big oil, and would have had us drilling in Alaska and negotiating like crazy, and solved that problem in an instant.
3. The economy? That's big business' distrust of Democratic administrations meddling in their affairs. Should have voted for Bush!
4. The budget deficit? Well... that's what happens with a low-tax, big-government Democrat in the White House. (Plus 8 years of Clinton economic policies that set up all the problems to begin with.)
5. Hurricane Katrina? Obviously Kerry has no idea how to prepare the country for a disaster or terrorist attack, which was what Republicans have been telling you all along.

Well now, as things stand, there is nobody to blame but Republicans, and boy is there going to be hell to pay in the 2006 elections... probably enough to flip the congress to the Democrats... and I would almost guarantee that in 2008, Democrats (or demoncrats, as the right-wingers like to call them) will be in charge of both houses of congress plus the White House.