Once upon a time, the voters elected a president named George W. Bush. They liked him well enough to elect him a second time. He was far from perfect, and his competition was not exactly stiff. One of the men he ran against was John Kerry, for heaven’s sake. Even so, he managed to convince […]
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Once upon a time, the voters elected a president named George W. Bush. They liked him well enough to elect him a second time. He was far from perfect, and his competition was not exactly stiff. One of the men he ran against was John Kerry, for heaven’s sake. Even so, he managed to convince a majority of the people that he was relatively honorable and reasonably well-intentioned.
Yet none of that counted in the liberal political and media establishment, which, despite the clear preference of the electorate, spent this president’s two terms issuing smears against his character, his intelligence, and, indeed, his validity as a presidential officeholder. They called him a fool, a liar, a warmonger, a war criminal, and an all-around not-very-bright fellow. They said he did not really win his first election. He was, for them, something like the apocalypse in pants.
