Things can turn around, but Dubya needs to not create the impression he is out of touch. His political capital from the 2004 election has been spent, with very little to show for it.
I'm afraid it's hereditary. "W"'s daddy was the same way. Ronald Reagan was not.
The Great Old New England Families of Joseph P. Kennedy and Herbert Walker Bush need to leave America alone. They've done enough damage for one Century.