Repub apologist reactions to shrub speech on gasoline crunch:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

I just went and revisited an old hobby related board I used to post on. Read a thread where some of the most consistent apologists for the right wing posted about watching the shrub's speech on energy policy.

The uniform reaction among these people was that it was a hollow, lip service performance, that shrub's communication skills were bad, and that his nonverbal communication (body language, expression etc.) betrayed the terrible shape he and his administration were in, and despite all this, he is essentially covering for his oil business cronies, allowing them to gouge us up to some arbitrary point (say, 3.50/gal ish) and then lowering it back down to 2.60 or so to "save the day".

I suspect most of these people will STILL push the button for whoever the Repubs put on a plate in front of them, because of swiftboating or flipflopping or Hilary hate or whatever the smear du jour will be, but maybe there will be some staying home or defections.