Cognitive Dissonance

There is a psychological term that best describes people that voted for Bush: cognitive dissonance.

This is a mental state of people where they find themselves contradicting themselves by doing things that don't fit with what they know, or having opinions contradictory to other opinions that they have.

Put another way, many people voted for Bush believing his lies, and now that his lies are being exposed, they still want to believe they made the correct decision. They'll strongly defend their choice and not accept they made a mistake rather than lose face.

What other explantion could there be for people continuing to give Bush and his administration a free pass? Every justification for the Iraq war has been refuted. A group of people who are supposedly for limited government, the sanctity of marriage, states' rights and fiscal responsibility have violated every one of those beliefs. Yet you won't hear other Republicans say a negative word of any of it. They'll just put some spin on it.

Bahhh, we the sheep-le.