Rod Dreher is a conservative writer for Beliefnet.

Few of us stood up to Bush when he took us to this disastrous war in Iraq. Few, if any, stood up to him over his foolish support for Rumsfeld, long after it became obvious what a disaster Rumsfeld was. Few, if any, stood up to him over his amassing of power in the executive branch. Few, if any, stood up to him on the spending....

The question is how to prevent an over reaction and a swing in the pendulum that is too extreme.

The beginning of my own sense of separation from the Bush administration came in January 2005, when the president declared that it is now the policy of the United States to eradicate tyranny in the world, and that the survival of American liberty is dependent on the liberty of every other nation. This was at once so utopian and so aggressive that it shocked me. For others the beginning of distance might have been Katrina and the incompetence it revealed, or the depth of the mishandling and misjudgments of Iraq.--Peggy Noonan

Holy Cow, I'm having hard time believing this ... nah

The question is how to prevent an over reaction and a swing in the pendulum that is too extreme.

I agree. The political pendulum has been wrenched so hard that the current release of so much pent-up energy has the country on a surprisingly swift trajectory towards uncertainty. I fear that the damping inertia of America's constitutional process has been crucially damaged, making future wild swings more extreme and less predictable than ever.