All rightists will insist:

Nothing bad ever happens in Iraq, and if by golly it did it wasn't our fault, it was the Baathists/syrians, Iranians.
Completely out of our hands.

George Bush is leading the whole Middle East to the promised land. As DFM pointed out below, the Palestinian elections were also due to Bush. Lebanese uprising due to assassination of former leader is also at hands of Bush.

That all that happened at Abu Ghraib was kinda silly, just pranks. Absolutely no-one, ever, died there.

That they actually gave a hoot for the Iraqi people ever since GW1.

Try to claim that all liberals everywhere were against Iraq war, Afghanistan and little old ladies. After all, they're not on our side

Items like the link I just posted from the NYT don't actually exist, since it is impossible for the liberal media to put any good light on anything the hallowed one does.

Above all, they'll continue to get smugger, cockier and assume that they are the natural party of government and that the center of the country will always vote for them.

You can take that last prediction to the bank.