George W. Bush is a politician, and a good one. Moreover, he is unique as a politician in that he is among the very few who are persons of high character and integrity.
You are so right: this is gut-check time. People need to figure out what their end-game is and go from there. If they'd rather have Rats in power than support a good man who, right now, is the leader of the party of good ideas, so be it.
There's not a person on this earth who could meet the expectations of some of the people here. It's just not possible, not humanly, not politically, not geopolitically. And if an American president did have enough power to enact or impose every single policy he desired, without having to compromise with either the opposing party or world leaders or whomever, then Freepers would be very sad indeed. We'd be living in a dictatorship and, even worse, one in which a Rat as well as a Republican could be king.
One of the truest non-religious statements I've ever seen on the FR.