This President’s Day — yes, patriots, that’s this coming Monday — HBO is airing my new film, "Right America Feeling Wronged: Some Voices from the Campaign Trail." (See below for clips from the film.) Filmed last year, the film offers some McCain supporters a space to tell the rest of America how they feel about the new president, Barack Obama.

While a majority of Americans may still be on their Obama honeymoon, they must remember that 58,343,671 of their fellow citizens did not want Barack to be their president. The question now is: How many of them will put "Nobama" bumper stickers on their cars, the way liberals put "Not My President" bumper stickers on their Priuses during the Bush years?

In the months leading up to the 2008 election, I traveled to 28 states and stood in line with the masses of die-hard conservatives who waited for hours (sometimes in below-freezing temperatures) to support the GOP ticket. In talking with some of the party faithful about the fight for the soul of America, I found a country at war with itself over the religious identity and what some perceive as a national decline in moral values. A large number of conservative Republicans are so bitterly divided along cultural and political lines, that they will never trust this president, Congress or the media. This documentary captures their point of view.

After every election, the losing half of the nation inevitably struggles to make peace with the fact that they feel like strangers in their own country. But this election was particularly frustrating for conservatives, because they felt that the mainstream media was biased against them and their candidate. They accuse the media of being liberal, yes, but definitely not open minded. That would require airing both sides of the debate, which conservatives insist didn’t happen

After 15 years as a journalist, and my now-famous friendship with George W. Bush, I was able to make friends at McCain events. In fact, many even invited me over for dinner to continue our conversations! Obviously I did not talk to every Republican – but I did talk to hundreds of them, which is more than most did in this election. (The campaign press corps usually parachute in and out of town so quickly that they never get a feel for the residents.)

Of course, my film couldn’t represent the views of every Republican — and certainly there will be some GOP members who will be embarrassed by their party peers. Surely only a small minority of people who voted for McCain actually believe that “Obama is a terrorist” – but you cannot dismiss these views, because if you hung around campaign rallies, you’d realize views are much more common than you would think. This election may have brought out the best in America, but it also brought out the worst in us.

My Republican brother-in-law would never use the N word like the old guys in the Mississippi; and my next-door neighbor would never say "Obama is a Muslim like Osama," like so many people did at the rallies last fall. And if you fixate on the one guy who says that “Obama is the Antichrist” you will be making the same mistake that many of the cable news shows do simply for a sensational story. Please do not dismiss all the kind, decent Republicans who appear in my film!

Since there are only two political parties in this country, each party’s a big tent. Not all Republicans want to associate themselves with everyone in their party, just like Blue Dog Democrats don’t want to be associated with Moveon.org. Both parties have racists, extremists and lots of normal people, too!