The Clintons and Bushes were tight as ticks in 2008. Indeed, BJ was GWB’s “brother from another mother,” according to GWB. Even though Acosta didn’t say it at the presser, it’s easy to use a novelist’s vision to come up with what really happened. Acosta was an ambitious stooge who was told to do what he didn’t want to do and made the best deal possible. Hence, the NPA.
Shared globalism aside, I personally consider Dubya a good ol’ boy (read: bad ol’ boy) with more in common morally with the likes of Bill-Hilly than with any genuinely devout Christian male.