Have to agree. Bush (thanks to Karl Rove) never fought back against the attacks. And became an easy target. He was an isolated prez for his last 2 years basically.
And Bush and Rove also gave us Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and the biggest Dim majorities in Congress they'd enjoyed for several decades.
Bush spent his second term insulting the conservative base with Harriet Meirs and his two big amnesty pushes in 2006 and 2007. The Republican party went from one of its strongest positions ever after the election of 2004 to one of its weakest positions ever after the election of 2008. - And W was definitely horrible at defending himself and his foreign policies.
Lots of convenient memory lapses on this thread by those who want to trash Trump.
That is my biggest complaint of GW, he never ever fought back. From the liberals attacking him after 9/11 to the WMD thing in Iraq. He just let them continue. That was my biggest complaint.