A professor from Swarthmore, who's blog I read from time to time because Amelia links to it, has an interesting essay dealing with the idea I tossed out a few days ago - why are so many conservative republicans still supporting Bush? He (the professor) frames his argument as a persuasive piece about Dean, and I definitely have not researched the Democratic candidates enough to agree or disagree with much of what he has to say. Nevertheless, it addresses a lot of specifically conservative republican interests much more fully than I would ever be able to, and provides some food for thought. Read and debate.