Exactly. That, more than anything, will get him re-elected. I am flat out amazed when I meet people that don't like Dubya. I can understand not agreeing with his policies, but the libs despise him.
I do not condone but I have some insight into the Libs' hatred. Bush shows them up for what they are, what they are not and what they can never be.
I am a boomer too and only slightly younger than W. I came from a working class background in the rural Midwest. In manner and in character - if not in accomplishment and talent - there were many people just like Bush where I grew up. I also went to elite schools including the ivys. To put it mildly, there were less people of this sort there, though more back then there are now I imagine.
Many Boomers thus privileged became these self-deluded little snobs that have it in the back of their minds that they are better than where they came from, and where they came from is the good ole' heartland of the USA, hicks and all. Many of my generation imagine themselves to be a sort of "gentry" or a "natural aristocracy;" that by virtue of what they take to be their superior education, intellect, intelligence, taste and, of course, their "creativity" all should surely see just how exceptional they truly are, that their opinions are naturally superior and that they just obviously have the right to run the country. It is sort of a "Divine Right of Twits."
This notion that they have of themselves is comically at odds with the reality of their pasts, presents and futures. Those of us boomers that did not completely have our heads up our rumps got over this problem by the age of 30 or so, generally went into business (lots went into technology, BTW) and over the course of our (productive) lives became conservatives to one degree or another. The rest of this privileged, indulged, indulgent, cosseted and self-important bunch still cling to this creamy dream world of theirs and in our world they inhabit every parasitic, unproductive and "creative" niche of this society from the Media to Wall St. to Law School to the Academy to the Nonprofit to the political machine of the Democrat Party.
They hate him simply for the reason that he reminds them of what they are not nor could even be. It is thrice cruel, bitter and painful: he squarely put before them not only the awful truth that they are not who they think they are, that not only are they not the sort he is, but they are not even the sort they grew up with. Old Uncle Joe who ran a grain elevator was actually a better person then they are. Little did they suspect this.
And he is just so natural, comfy and happy to be just another plain and simple spoken American, and he went to Harvard too. It drives them nuts.
It is like politely showing a surely drunk the door, and you know how they feel about that.