Bush supporters are in a remarkably stable state of cognitive dissonance according to this study:

“The roots of the Bush supporters’ resistance to information,” according to Steven Kull, “very likely lie in the traumatic experience of 9/11 and equally in the near pitch-perfect leadership that President Bush showed in its immediate wake. This appears to have created a powerful bond between Bush and his supporters–and an idealized image of the President that makes it difficult for his supporters to imagine that he could have made incorrect judgments before the war, that world public opinion could be critical of his policies or that the President could hold foreign policy positions that are at odds with his supporters.”

Or in other words, they truly believe that De Nile really IS just a river in Egypt.

We’ve had the credibility gap, the 18 1/2 minute gap, the fairness gap, the gender gap, the God gap, and now of course we have the Reality Gap.

::eyeroll::

Let’s get real, people. Let’s get really real.