Thank you for making my point for me. Like I said, there will always be the rabid anti-Bush crowd that foams at the mouth and croaks such things. Nothing will dissuade them otherwise. Nothing.
Going back and changing history would, effectively, dissuade me. But the facts of the case are that his Admin made absolutely enormous blunders - "blunders" is being very kind - and no amount of non-blunders will make the mistakes go away. That isn't the way things work.
If a cop pulls you over for a deadly hit-and-run a valid defense - in either a legal or ethical sense - is NOT "But I drove all day, both before and after the accident, quite well!"
But that's pretty much the last defense you offered.
Well, right before ignoring my point and shooting right to your over-wrought characterizations defense.
That, though, is a nice example of the demonization *I* was talking about. Would you like me to tell you why so many of GWB's critics are demonized? It's because his Admin and his supporters were very publicly, very expensively, very, very wrong. And when you're that wrong - when the facts are so far in the other side's camp that people start making jokes like "Reality has a liberal bias" - then you find personal attacks are simply the best tool left you. They're often pretty much matters of emotion and personal opinion, and those are venues where you've actually got a chance.
Sort of literally, it's a retreat to a defensible position.
