"Bush is a lock"

This post, and the comments that follow, are about as dispriting as anything I can imagine. Fortunately, the coments come mostly from libertarian, Instapundit nut cases.

I realize that this isn't a particularly bold prediction, and of course if I'm wrong I'll just throw up my hands and chalk it all up to the mysteries of this great democracy we're privileged to live in. Nor is this one of these "predictions" that really expresses a heartfelt wish: Though I find Bush slightly (ever so slightly) less emetic than Kerry, he's a crook, a stumblebum, and a lazy, mirthless little prince, and any country that would re-elect him deserves every bad thing that will happen to it. If I have any degree of preference between the two candidates, the best word for it is the vaguely theological term velleity: the lowest level of volition, unaccompanied by any intention to act.

How does one argue with people who feel that Bush's course in the world is making us more secure here in the U.S.? Or that photos of prisoner abuse are shrugged off as "It's a war."