Quote from Gord:
Imagine if Bush had given the Chinese ballistic missile technology that allowed them to jump thirty years ahead and provided them with the ability to nuke N. America, as a payoff for laundered fundraising money or as a result of blackmail over shenanigans with "interns" and other women (it has to be one or the other). Well Bubba did exactly that, and where was the media? Nowhere! Did they hound him out of office as they should have? Not a chance! They covered up for him. Clinton should have been forced to resign in disgrace, but the media loved him and covered his backside throughout a myriad of scandals that they would never have let Bush live down.
This is certainly true. However, Bush has been unusually adept at angering his own base, which means he is either extremely courageous or just plain dumb.
It's not just the big stuff like the iraq fiasco or obscene federal spending or even the amnesty betrayal. It's little things like the insane prosecution of those two Border Patrol agents, Campeon and Ramos, who got 11 years in prison on ridiculous charges. Or the equally disturbing prosecutions of soldiers for split second combat decisions.

