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Its true, Helprin is a idiot.

That said, Bush refused to fight back politically. some of us recall how he handled the DUI story the week before the 2000 election, and in hindsight the way he just let it ‘go’ with only one statement about it was a indicator of things to come.

To paraphrase W ‘He had his chance (after the 04 election) and he did not lead’.

I concluded three years ago W played ‘not to lose’ both on domestic policy AND in Iraq after his second Inaugural. He sat on a lead, much as a baseball team will do, and it cost both him and this nation dearly.

We got the most liberal House since LBJ, and lost the Senate. We got a Moderate RINO as the 08 nominee, and its GOING to cost us dearly over the next four years, maybe longer if the Moderates keep the GOP on this losing path.

Had W prosecuted the war in Iraq AFTER Saddam, its my view the GOP wouldn’t have lost the House, nor would it have lost the Senate.

And McCain wouldn’t have had a leg to stand on in the primaries with his ‘I was for the surge first’ nonsense (Guiliani, like him or not, was ‘first’ on that score, and no I wasn’t a Rudy supporter). Had W played to WIN in Iraq between January of 05 and the debacle of the 06 election cycle, we wouldn’t be in the position of praying Obama doesn’t repeat the worst of LBJ and Carter’s many mistakes in short.

You can’t find another President that gave up the PR battle to the liberal MSM as completely as W has done, folks.

I voted for him twice. Given the same opposing nominees, I would do so again, no choice.

But his second term has been one political disaster after another.

And thats what happens when you sit on a lead in American politics.