If you go back to the 2000 election, Bush ran as a uniter not a divider and I believe his heart was in the right place and was exactly what this country needed. But alas, decent people rarely understand the depravity of some and the last thing the Dems were going to allow was for this President to unite this country and allow healing. He reached across that aisle consistently, to the likes of Teddy Kennedy who spit on him, remember?