It's hard to be a right-wing supporter. You have to justify the president and his advisors breaking the law, twisting the Consitution, and lying brazenly and repeatedly every step of the way. At the same time, you have to demand investigations of those who don't support Bush, and do so on the flimsiest pretenses possible.

And while all this is going on, you have to convince yourself and those around you that giving up your freedoms makes you free, that creating historic deficits is fiscal conservatism, that doubling the size of government is actually shrinking government, that warrantless searches and arrests without charges on the basis of secret evidence resulting on American citizens being held indefinitely (and possibly tortured) is all, somehow, the truest expression of American ideals.