For the record, you're being so patronizing and using strawman (i.e. "false") attacks (hagiographs? LOL!) that have nothing to do with anything, that it's difficult to take you seriously, Kenny Bunk.
Want to try again?
The fact that Bush's VP chose not to run, and that the man who was nominated ran against HIM, not against Obama, was a huge factor in the election.
Do you deny that?
(No more phony arguments now.....)
Do you deny that?
Hell, no. But tell me, how in his precarious state of health, bruited about in the MSM for 8 years, was Cheney supposed to run? In particular, I believe he had absolutely no wish to do so.
But, can you deny, in his de facto role as party leader, that W might have done something to end the Democrat cabal that pushed McC in open primaries, before he became the candidate? Or even put forward, or endorsed, another candidate? This, as you well know, is not exactly an unheard-of tactic.
In re your hero, GW, we only have one major difference: you (apparently) wish to absolve him of all responsibility for the present FUBAR Situation, and I cannot. SOME portion of it has to go back to his shortcomings in office, either perceived (management of which perception was also his responsibility) or real.
The mantra "Bush's Fault," has a bit of truth to it. "How much?" is the question.