What Bush and Batman have in common?
Maybe not the hero we wanted, but the hero we needed.
Godspeed.
I liken GW and Reagan to the old-school no-compromise hard-line dad that every kid gripes about to his peanut gallery friends at school, but never gives a thought to whether that same “mean old SOB” [NOT!] would be out of bed, down the stairs, across the house, ball bat ready to swing, and in the face of a would-be intruder before the first shard of breaking glass could make it to the floor.
We bit@h about them while we live under their roofs all the while secretly praying that we grow up to be that strong, self-sacrificing, and loyal to those who count on us.
There was a time not long ago when “contemporary historians” could find little good to say about Reagan but were all agush over incumbent Bubba. Funny what a decade +/- of hindsight will do, isn't it. ;) It'll take time, but the smart @$$es and pencil necks will come to miss their tough old man.