"before you tear anything down, you'd better be damned sure what you're going to put in its place."
Like Powell's Pottery Barn rule. If the hawks get 4 more years, we're going to know how the German's felt after WW2. Complacency and gullibility are not virtues.
"these people are incompetent idiots."
Bush is, without a doubt, an idiot but there's brilliance behind the idiot. The neocons/theocons needed an idiot as figure head. Who better than Bush?