I think the moment came in 2005 when conservatives to a signficant extent found it useful to agree with liberal reactionaries on Iraq.
From there, some conservatives borrowed the Bush traitor meme on border issues to further annihilate the public persona of President.
There is no doubt in my mind that this is one our greatest Presidents ever. The ever escalating hate numbers for President Bush do nothing but endear me further to him.
If he murdered his political opponents he would be much more politically popular. Putin, Chavez, Castro, and Kim Jong Il are much more popular because they kill those who disagree.
The Bush Hate party going on in America among conservartives and liberals reactionaries is ultimately indicative of cowardice. WE are not asked to fight the war on foreign shores but we are asked to support the leader commanding that war.
WE are too afraid to do this and so we would rather surrender to the global hatred than stand with the President.
The reactionaries have gotten their wish. Obama will be the President and he most assuredly is everything that President Bush is not. The clever efforts to link the two are amusing but will not suffice. Whatever criticisms conservative reactionaries might have legitimately had with President Bush, they will now see an avalance of the problem under the Democratic Congress and now Democratic President they chose to elect by attacking President Bush.
This has been the dilemma... for years we have the whining of people "sick and tired of the lesser of two evils argument". they of course have every right to feel that way if they disagree with a Bush policy in one area or another. So they got off the bus and stayed home.
Great - NOW WE FACE THE GREATEST OF ALL POSSIBLE EVILS. ... NOW WHAT?!?
I do hope that those on the right who invested much energy and venom attacking Bush will be equally if not more forceful in opposing Obama's socialism.