Don't be a hater.

I have never understood the hatred of George W. Bush. Nor the piling on as I see it is not based on anything factual. Bush Derangement Syndrome is the name given.

As Governor of Texas he worked on both sides of the isle. He brought the parties together. He earned the moniker of Compassionate Conservative. I remember being disappointed when he won the Republican nomination, even more so with Dick Cheney as his Vice Pres.

The idea of Al Gore was enough to make me vote Bush. I do feel vindicated as we now know what a nut-job punchline Al Gore is in 'real life.'

So I am thinking it has to do with Bill Clinton's, perjury, obstruction of justice and abuse of powers charges. H.RES.611 for the 105th Congress:

This put a target on the next Republican president. Then the recounting of votes in Florida (Gore lost even if the supreme court had not stopped the debacle) . Few mention that Gore failed to win the popular vote in his home state, Tennessee, which both he and his father had represented in the Senate. If he had he would have won the election without Florida. Gore was the first major-party presidential candidate since George McGovern who lost his home state.

Of course hatred for the War on Terror the congress aprroved, and the WMD intel, that Clinton passed to Bush, that was one of the many reasons for going into Iraq. earlier posting on that

A few years ago, there was a renewal of the good Nixon did while in office. My thinking is the George Bush the media hates is not the George Bush who is our president, and time will tell.