[alnick]

I'll bet when the polls agree with the author, he's got a few hackneyed cliches about the "wisdom of the American people ready to go

It appears you didn't read the article. The last two lines: "Most of the time, the majority is right. This is not one of those times."

[Huck]

But his argument makes no sense. Americans elected Bush twice. The libs in Cali voted against him both times, and don't care about tax breaks, so his points there were moot. He goes on to what? Make some basic arguments for the Iraq War. America reelected GWB with the Iraq War the central, hell, the only issue. They were right to re-elect him, but that doesn't mean they are wrong for disapproving of the job he's doing. And it doesn't mean you can use pre 04 arguments to argue for support now. We supported his first term accomplishments in 04 when we voted for his reelection. Now we judge his peformance on what he does now.

Meanwhile, back in the 90s, the argument on the right was that Americans were wrong to approve of Klintoon on the basis of the economy when there were other issues to be considered. Seems now they want to have Americans judge GWB on the economy. And this guy can argue all he wants that the RX plan is "working." But just because subscribers are saving money doesn't mean taxpayers are.

GW was an obvious choice in 04. But judged on his own merits since 04...well, what has he accomplished since 04? Only thing I can think of is two SCOTUS appointments, and one of those was only after a self-inflicted, and still inexplicable debacle.