Nice post SASless, and thank-you for a very clear, forceful and well-put statement of your position. Never knew you were a moderate...
Disagree with this bit
They hate Bush and the Republican Party more than they love the country and forsake National interests for purely personal issues at a time when we are engaged in a war. There is a way to wage politics and also protest the war...but it should be done without giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
Possibly in another thread (since this one has wandered into the familiar mud-bog); I'd be interested in how you would want a politician to "protest the war" without giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
(Serious question -- looking for an example for my education, not as an attempt to nit-pick your position)