I voted for the President twice, and I’m not going to sugar coat it, he’s been a disappointment in his second term in my view.
Harriet Miers marks the moment the wheels came off.
That said, his Presidency will be treated kindly by historians a few decades from now, when the aging liberals rants won’t penetrate six feet of dirt above their heads.
And no matter what any of us think, he’s changed the USSC from left of center to right of center.
Not bad, not bad at all.
He just got complacent. Also, unlike John Kerry and Al Gore, it was never his lifelong goal to become President. He’s never had any sort of “grand vision” for transforming the country. He ran as a “compassionate” conservative, not a traditional conservative. And that’s pretty much how he’s run his Presidency. Miers was a Rovian plot, not bush.