^ It's not the social issues they're pissed about, it's fiscal ones. And they're right to be. Bush ran against Gore in 2000 by charging that Gore would increase the size of government by the largest margin since LBJ (who initiated Medicare, etc.); a recent study by the libertarian Cato Institute has discovered that Bush has increased the size of government by the largest margin since--yes--LBJ. Republicans are not supposed to do that.