In the meantime, anybody who calls Palin the most polarizing figure of recent memory, can't have any claim to be a right winger OR to follow US politics with any degree of accuracy.
Bush is still more polarizing...because he has *been* President.
Once Palin gets elected, she'll pass him though.
Cheers!
Up until his mismanagement of Iraq war, President Bush was quite a popular president. He unified the country quite well after 9-11, and was the first president in recent memory to gain seats in a mid-term Congressional election. The 2004 election was polarizing not for any other reason than the height of Iraq disaster and Fallujah nightmare. Subseuquent to that election, Iraq dominated the rest of his term.
I am proud that he stuck up for his Iraq decision and righted that ship with surge even while his polls were sinking and support for continuing that war was cratering. He was the true leader in that moment of need.
Sure, that caused other political issues for GOP brand. But, at least he did not abandon Iraq like our current President is abandoning Afghanistan.
Thank god!