Dear Former Bush Supporters:

Please forgive me for not having written in a while, but with all of the brouhaha surrounding the primaries, I’m afraid I have been remiss in keeping in touch with my friends on the other side of the aisle.

I know that you and I have had our differences over the past seven-plus years, but that’s all blood under the bridge now, so I just wanted to drop a line and catch up on things.

So ... here we all are, as a citizenry, a nation, a people. Whadda ya think?

The economy is tanking, and people are losing their homes, their health insurance, their jobs – you know, the jobs that you insisted would be plentiful once Georgie got going, the old ones that have disappeared and the new ones that never materialized.

The price of filling-up at the pump has skyrocketed, along with the cost of food, heating your home, sending your kids to college, and just about everything else.

Hey, remember when we all used to talk about giving our kids a better life than we had? Those were the days, huh? That was before your fiscally-responsible Republican president plunged the country into a debt that not only our kids, but our great-grandkids will be saddled with for decades. At this rate, they won’t even be able to afford a one-way ticket to India or China in order to find what used to be a good ol’ American job.

One thing I can’t argue with is your assertions about the phony War on Terror – I admit it; you were right all along. Georgie’s policies have been wildly successful in encouraging more anti-American sentiment than even I could have imagined, not to mention the upsurge in recruitment to “organizations” like Al Qadea. I don’t know how I could have missed his obvious efforts to ensure we won’t be running out of terrorists any time soon.

I must say I am surprised that after your initial rallying around the War in Iraq, so many of you are now singing a completely different tune. Makes me harken back to the days when I was a traitor because I said it would all end badly, and you were the patriot because you knew victory was just around that next corner. Last poll I checked, the majority of Americans think Iraq is a disaster and want out NOW. Have you changed your mind – or are you just lying to the pollsters as a goof? If those WMDs hadn’t been found, this whole misadventure would have been a total disaster, wouldn’t you say?

I know I’m waxing nostalgic here, but remember when you were telling me how great things were going to be under the fine Christian leadership of W? Good God, that’s one we can all chuckle about now. Man o man, who knew he’d turn out to be such a lying, warmongering, murdering torturer! So funny how things come out in the end, huh?

But ya gotta give right when it comes to the bucks. Sure there’s the billions spent in Iraq, and the billions gone missin’ on W’s watch, the millions wasted on the embassy in Baghdad, yadda yadda. But the CEOs of our fine American corporations are earning up to ten times what they were before this administration got into office, so it’s not all bad news. Some people are doing great, no doubt about it. It’s just too bad you aren’t one of them.

But all in all, I’m sure you don’t regret your enthusiasm for lil’ George. Yeah, yeah, so he didn’t bring dignity back to Washington, his buffoonery is legendary in a world that no longer respects our country, his ignorance is only matched by his inability to speak coherently, our country is locked in a quagmire in Iraq that has led to increased volatility in the ME, we have thousands of dead troops and over a million Iraqi casualties, our military is broken, our country is flat broke and more polluted than ever, our manufacturing sector is all but gone, and we are inundated with products from other countries that are cheap due to slave labour and child labour – and the fact that those products are poisoning our kids and killing our pets is of no concern to the administration that promised to Keep America Safe.

So, like I said, I just wanted to check in with all of you, and ask the big question with respect to that Bush guy who you loved so much, you voted for him not once, but twice: How’s that working out for you?

Just wonderin’ …