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Ad hominem arguments are so frutiful (sarcasm). And Bushbots are so good at them.

Awwww, poor baby. You can't take the same kind of invective that you spew toward GWB when it's turned around on you. Tsk, tsk, tsk.

There was I time I resented the "bushbot" epithet, for obvious reasons. It is intended to shut up anyone who disagrees with you -- a tactic, I might add, that is a favorite of the Left. Come up with some label (bushbot, racist, homophobe, whatever), attach a negative connotation to it, and hurl it around at anyone who isn't 100% on your page. These days, with a bona fide avowed Marxist in the presidency to compare and contrast, I'm damned proud to be called a "bushbot."

As for you being old enough to remember Ronald Reagan, whoop-de-do. You and how many millions of others. *rolls eyes*

I remember Ronald Reagan also. The real man, not the phony caricature too many on the Right have created -- a caricature, as I said earlier, that RWR would neither recognize nor appreciate.

President Reagan was a warm, kind, humorous man who had a keen understanding of politics and the American political spectrum. He was, indeed, a truly great man. However, if he were alive and in office today, people of your stripe would use the internet to skewer him just as viciously as you did GWB. Why? Because, as governor of California, he raised taxes, signed a bill legalizing abortion in the state, and believed that blacks and Latinos were not being treated equally in the state hiring system. He greatly increased hiring of those minority groups in the state government.

You can read the man's own words here at RonaldReagan.com. The site has extensive passages from President Reagan's autobiography.

As president, Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, still the only true illegal immigration amnesty in the nation's history. What is little known or remembered by conservatives today is that President Reagan asked the Congress to pass such legislation in 1981, not long after his first inaugural. Here's what he said at the siging ceremony:

In 1981 this administration asked the Congress to pass a comprehensive legislative package, including employer sanctions, other measures to increase enforcement of the immigration laws, and legalization. The act provides these three essential components. The employer sanctions program is the keystone and major element. It will remove the incentive for illegal immigration by eliminating the job opportunities which draw illegal aliens here. We have consistently supported a legalization program which is both generous to the alien and fair to the countless thousands of people throughout the world who seek legally to come to America. The legalization provisions in this act will go far to improve the lives of a class of individuals who now must hide in the shadows, without access to many of the benefits of a free and open society. Very soon many of these men and women will be able to step into the sunlight and, ultimately, if they choose, they may become Americans.

Those are very nearly the identical terms President George W. Bush used in his proposals regarding illegal immigration.

In one way, GWB was truly greater and more courageous than RWR. When the Marine barracks were bombed, Reagan turned tail and ran from Lebanon. GWB never turned tail, but instead took the fight to our enemies in radical Islam. I, for one, will always be proud to have supported both RWR and GWB, but, to be honest, I'm more proud of GWB. His was the hardest road any U.S. president has had to face since FDR, in some ways, since the Madison administration. GWB did it with class, courage, fortitude, decency and true leadership.

In addition, the man you mock as being unable to speak coherent sentences sure gave some mighty fine speaches when it counted most. My absolute favoriate GWB quote comes from his First Inaugural:

After the Declaration of Independence was signed, Virginia statesman John Page wrote to Thomas Jefferson: “We know the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong. Do you not think an angel rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm?”
Much time has passed since Jefferson arrived for his inauguration. The years and changes accumulate. But the themes of this day he would know: our nation’s grand story of courage and its simple dream of dignity.
We are not this story’s author, who fills time and eternity with his purpose. Yet his purpose is achieved in our duty, and our duty is fulfilled in service to one another.
Never tiring, never yielding, never finishing, we renew that purpose today, to make our country more just and generous, to affirm the dignity of our lives and every life.
This work continues. This story goes on. And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm.

I am not ashamed to say I love and honor President George W. Bush. Perhaps I am the last person standing to say so, and perhaps I'll be mocked by small ones such as you for it, but so be it.