hear, hear!
I certainly found much to fault about George W. Bush, but I think he did a great job in an extremely difficult time.
If you ask some of these people “Okay, who is, in YOUR opinion, an example of a President we have had in the past that we could put into office?” you are likely to get two answers: Calvin Coolidge or Ronald Reagan.
I find it hard to argue with Coolidge, and I love Reagan and what he did, but...hey, Reagan signed an immigration bill that gave amnesty to all illegal immigrants who were in this country before 1982. And the people like Ted Kennedy swore up and down that our immigration issues were over, they would not flood into this country, the borders would be secure, etc etc etc.
Reagan smiled that trademark smile, shook hands with Kennedy, O’Neill, et al, and we went on our way to where we are now. He is no different in that respect than Bush, except Bush was trying to get in front of the immigration issue going forward for different political reasons, he was pandering to hispanics.
Because Reagan happily signed that bill, that does not invalidate his approach to taxes, improving the military and making it an honorable place to be and so on.
There are just a lot of people who are going to flat out bitch, and they aren’t part of any solution going forward, because it is too darn much work to have to propose something on every single issue that will make any one person 100% happy.