They're Republicans? Don't Republicans support the War? Don't their Republican constituents support Bush and the war?
I think the final nail in the coffin for Bush, as far as support from the GOP, was when he went down to Florida, where his brother Jeb is a Governor, to help a Republican candidate rally for the mid-term election this fall.
The guy who was getting rally support, managed to be "elsewhere" when Bush arrived...
Humiliated by one of his own - and I don't even think it was a senatorial candidate, but someone running for the congress.
IMO, it seems like the GOP has moved on. The Bush administration and the GOP is two different things.
-Hedge