No he’s not abandoned; unfortunately, many among the conservative ‘intelligentsia’ and the Freeper ‘elitists’ want to project their fantasies (on abandonment and other issues) as fact.
[I guess the ‘tone’ of your comment disappointed me more than anything else . . . As though on the MAJOR issues of our time, President Bush hasn’t been battling for and with us every step of the way . . . and certainly more so than any contemporary president, including Reagan.]
DD, I think there’s something else going on here, too. We are at the time when our very system demands we shift our loyalties to a Thompson, Hunter, Tancredo, Huckabee, etc.
They MUST increase and he MUST decrease. It is natural to analyze his contributions and his failures in determining what one wants in a future candidate.
The president’s greatest legacy will be the Scotus he gave us, imho.