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Originally Posted by DrPhil
People didn't start off showing disrespect and disloyalty to Bush. He received a lot of support particularly after 9/11 and received votes from nonRepubs. He was fighting an uphill battle in some regards and Americans from both sides of the aisle were initially going along for the ride.
But Coulter knows that already.
I feel sorry for Bush and think he's probably a cool guy. Some of this is of his own doing, though.
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He had a pretty high approval rating right after 9/11. I'm not sure exactly when his approval rating started to dive, but it seemed pretty steady over a period of time.
If the Democrats had been able to field a viable candidate in 2004, who knows. But, they chose Kerry, who has been living off of Kennedy's good work in Massachusetts since he took office. I think it could have been interesting if there had been a half-way decent candidate for the Dems in that election.
I will be very interested to see how history judges Bush. He's not going to leap into the top 10 Presidents or anything like that, but history tends to obscure the mistakes of many Presidents (FDR's court-packing plan, for example).