A well educated articulate man in my office, with advanced degrees says almost the same thing. He had to vote for Obama because he so loathed Bush and it was largely because of Iraq. I did manage to get in that Obama wasn’t running against Bush. This was after he had said that he was very disappointed in Obama. I have found that people become more upset when they realize that they were wrong.
Most of the libs I’m around have become very quiet. They don’t say anything when politics come up.