This is the lot of being a moderate and trying to please everyone.
Fight in Iraq, but throw our borders wide open.
Put down the U.N.'s global designs, but rally for international free trade that outsources American jobs and helps enemy economies more than or own, (China).
Form a Homeland Security Agency, but allow millions of unknown foreignors into our country every year.
Tell the people we need to stop being dependent on foreign oil in the SOTU address, but fail to mention that the Democrats have blocked his (meager) attempts to drill in the Alaksan oil reserves.
Stand against the liberals but be a big government spender.
Get constantly viscerated in the media by B. Clinton, but help keep him in the media lime-light by tapping him to raise money for Asian tsunami victims.
Stand up and declare that the "powerful and the strong have a duty to protect the weak", and in the same speech claim that he is "powerless" to help Terri Schiavo.
Eventually this business of being a political moderate and a 'good guy' erodes a man's substance. Bush is a fine, honest gentleman who possesses a lot of courage, but his politics are wishy-washy. Ronald Reagan he is not.
Whoa. Your #154 is gonna leave a mark.
I enjoy this idea that Bush's shortcomings can be defused by somehow slamming Reagan, too. Just visualize that strategy being developed:
"Hey, let's piss on the grave of the most popular conservative President in the last century, and we'll thus raise Dubya in conservative eyes. Yeah, that oughta work!"