Three more years

Andrew got it right when he penned these words:

What worries me is that we have almost three more years. If we face a confrontation or a crisis, this president will not be able to carry Americans with him. Our enemies will take comfort from this. Which is why re-electing him was such a terrible risk.

Which is why I voted for John Forbes Kerry in the last election, knowing full well that he wasn't the answer, just the lesser of evils at a time of profound consequence. Far too few conservatives and foreign policy wonks saw the writing on the wall back in February of 2004. Thus, as time marches on you read more and more of too-little, too-late conversions like this one from NRO's George Conway

I voted for President Bush twice, and contributed to his campaign twice, but held my nose when I did it the second time. I don't consider myself a Republican any longer. Thanks to this Administration and the Republicans in Congress, the Republican Party today is the party of pork-barrel spending, Congressional corruption — and, I know folks on this web site don't want to hear it, but deep down they know it's true — foreign and military policy incompetence. Frankly, speaking of incompetence, I think this Administration is the most politically and substantively inept that the nation has had in over a quarter of a century. The good news about it, as far as I'm concerned, is that it's almost over.

But it's not. There are three more years. Three more years of challenges and threats. Three more years of postponing the great national dialogue on America's role in the world. Three more years of draining the GOP of credibility and vitality.

It sucks.