The Great GW Bush Sociological Chasm

In NO previous election has ANY sitting president had more votes cast against him than GW Bush. So despite many Republican claims of a mandate, this country is quite nearly divided in half. And there's a Grand Canyonesque divide between the two generally shared evaluations of GW Bush.

How can nearly half this nation see Bush as a man of delightful unpolished charm...who rules not from Rhodes Scholarly egg-headedness, but from his heart, where God has taken firm root, and guides him through difficult, but unwaveringly RIGHT decisions...and the rest of the country sees a buffoon who rode his daddy's coattails through an alcohol-powered young adulthood, and who now operates with few discernible skills other than to fool the slighly larger half of the country into thinking that he actually knows something about ANYthing?

Why is it that so many tens of millions of people cut this guy slack through dozens of what are clearly mistakes, that they'd never allow even a 2nd time for a guy who was dating his teenaged daughter? In my noggin', this is tantamount to seeing the Harley-riding, body-pierced, tattoo-covered beer-drenched guy who was picking up my daughter and thinking with a smile that "gosh, he's quirky..."

I know good people--intelligent people--who think the sun rises and sets on George W. Bush, and who look askance and me and wonder why I don't see what's so plainly in front of my face: that GW's right. And this question isn't just an unimportant whimsy of a guy blogging away in the blogosphere. Democrats' inability to understand and properly react to this is why Bush has just been given another 4 years to dissassemble the fine works of men and women of the last 230 years.

There is such a MASSIVE ability amongst many Republicans to forgive nearly everything Bush has said or done, and it's a forgiveness they'd extend to no one else. What in the world about GW Bush inspires in so many to suspend disbelief in common sense? What is this shared psychological aspect that is common in slightly more Americans, and absent in the rest of us?

It's one of the strangest aspects of life in these United States. And it inspires in me a 2nd theory: that the chasm is merely a sociological place, but the repercussions of all of his decisions happen in the real world.

That the cumulative effect of his decisions can't help but finally be undeniably measureable, and that facts and figures and dead sons and daughters, and jobs lost and debts due...that all these realities will finally, FINALLY somehow cause this shared mirage of a concept to begin to draw that chasm closer...'til finally it disappears.

I'd have thought it would have begun a couple of years ago, but that's one BIG chasm. Because there are still people lining up to sing this man's praises despite all he's done.

Lawd, Lawd have mercy...I suspect history won't.