One of the themes of the MSM (as noted here) on the Bush victory is that the gay marriage issue brought out the Bush voters.  Perhaps it did in some states.  But I can tell you that this isn’t the case for a lot of people who voted for Bush.  In fact, I despise the Republican position on this issue (as well as a number of other moral ones) and I was deeply disturbed by the results in those 11 states that had various marriage bans on their ballots.  There was one and only one reason I voted for him (and I had to hold my nose to do it): the war on Islamist bastards who want to kill us (or whatever name you want to give it).  We can argue about gay marriage and other moral issues later, after we’ve either killed all the terrorists or made them give up (I don’t care which, I just want them to leave us the hell alone).

I suspect most of the “mandate” the Republicans got was really based on the fact that a lot of people saw the Democrats as fundamentally unserious when it comes to our country’s security.  I remain very wary of many of the other parts of the Republican platform and agenda and will be watching them very closely.