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.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm . . . I don’t remember thinking that I had to savage Reagan (and shift my loyalties) in an effort to elect H W Bush.
President Bush will have SEVERAL great legacies: SCOTUS, the economy (which could have easily gone the other way) and framing/fighting our War on Terror (the defining issue of the 21st centuray)!!