Bush seemed to go soft in the head part way into his second term.
Maybe he just couldn’t take the pressure any longer.
Lame ducks show their true colors.
Bush “turned” into what he was, A Northeast Country Clubber in the finest William Weld tradition.
Signed No Child Left Behind -- January 2002
Signed McCain-Feingold -- March 2002
Signed Medicare prescription drug benefit -- December 2003
etc.
I have a theory. I believe that what we say about or to people can either bless them or curse them (Christianese). He had so many negative remarks made, hateful remarks made, by both dems and pubs, to him and about him that they became a curse to him. How many people prayed for him to overcome those remarks. It would tire anyone out.