Yeah, and I've made some of them. But that's different from this visceral, irrational hatred the left feels for Bush. I don't hate Bush - I just realize that for everything he does that advance the conservative agenda, he'll do a thing or two that advance the liberal agenda. But that's what he said he was going to do during the campaign, so it makes no sense to hate him for that.
No, the left hates Bush because he is the embodiment of the fact that the left is falling apart in this country. Their philosophy is obviously a failure to anyone with a shred of objectivity. Young people are laughing at leftists. Comics and writers from Dave Barry to Dennis Miller to Mark Steyn are skewering them daily. Their irrational positions on the Iraq War and other things connected to the fight against terrorism show that they are disconnected from reality, and most people see that. Leftists are by turns shunned and ridiculed.
And they just can't stand it. After two generations of holding the high ground via their lackeys in the press and academia, they are now losing ground rapidly. Since they believe in their socialist philosophy as a matter of faith, they can't turn their back on it. All they can do is lash out at symbols of their failure. And Bush is the biggest symbol around.
Bush is as innocuous a president in terms of personality that we've had in a long time. But that doesn't matter. He's the symbol of leftist failure, so he's the target of hate. They would rather do that than confront their own failure.