The media successfully “borked” W. W certainly didn’t help himself on many issues. If I were a strategist trying to have Bush help on the campaign trail, I’d keep him to solidly red states and military bases.
As much as I hate it, everywhere else he is a reminder of why people voted for “hope and change” in the first place.
The media successfully “borked” W
How? Were they supposed to not report on the biggest recession since the Great Depression? Bush presided over a massive housing bubble - fueled by the easy lending policies for low incomes that he and Rove promoted - and when the bubble burst, the economy tanked. And you’re saying it’s the media’s fault, not Bush’s?
I don’t like the liberal media either, but Reagan had a liberal media too, and that didn’t keep him from being a successful and popular president.