I could not agree more. I really like the Anchoress.
Personally, I think the “Bush = Hitler” nonsense spouted by the Left was tactical cover. By spewing it so loudly and for so long, the Left essentially desensitised the American people to over the top political rhetoric. Then, when leftists next get into power (as they did in 2006 and 2008), and actually started to put into practice true to life fascist policies, any complaints we make about can then be just dismissed as “sour grapes” from Republicans who are “just trying to destroy Obama” the same way the Left did to Bush - and thereby be ignored by the bulk of the people at large.
The (for now) last American President.
As time passes more of this will prove to be truthful. The problem is that we have been bombarded with eight years of “Bush is an idiot” and the mantra has become a fact to the uninformed.