I agree completely. Iraq was certainly a factor but the MSM has ignored the fact that many conservatives had completely lost all confidence in Bush's credibility - which is one reason we lost Congress. The Gallop and Nielson polls clearly demonstrated that while two-thirds of the nation opposed his amnesty proposals he ignored what was once his base. He split the party and that's where we are now. It's become more and more clear to Republicans that Bush is not, nor has ever been, a Reaganite conservative.
Well stated. If the election was lost because the Republicans and conservatives (not the same thing nowadays) stayed home, then it was lost not because of the Iraq war, which both groups support, however reluctantly at times, but out of principle nonetheless, but because as you pointed out, because of domestic issues, which have been screwed up more than the war - the deficits, the bridges to nowhere, the outsourcing of jobs, the borders.