I’ll accept your premise with respect to football, basketball and baseball. There’s no net good/bad effect based on outcomes. The same cannot be said for politics.

The fact that his approval rating was better than that of Congress is nothing more than mental masturbation. He and his party are on the streets and the people running Congress (those with the all-time low approval rating) are running the show.

Politics has always been a nasty business. And with respect to the idea that we should “attribute good faith” to the Democrats, that’s an award winner in the category “Dumbest Most Counterproductive Ideas Ever”. As far as “forgiveness” goes, they should be looking for God’s forgiveness and we should be using every waking minute to discredit them, to indict them and to hound them from public life. The people running the Democratic Party (and the NYT, etal) are not “good decent folk” they are enemies of liberty and the American Dream.

Oh, and “they” are not on the “American side”. “They” are on the side of the UN and EU.

Would it be “loving” for you to give a homeless man money, if you knew he was going to use it to get high?

Would it be “compassionate” to give a student a good grade in a class that he did poorly in, when his lack of understanding of the material will cause him to lose opportunities in jobs and education?

Is it “kind” to let your kids do whatever they want, if that means they’ll get hurt?

Now, ask yourself this: is it “good faith” not to address problems in policy that Democrats have that will not only lower our security, comfort, and quality of life, but theirs as well? It’s not “compassionate” to them, and it’s certainly not compassionate to America.

And remember, his approval rating was consistently higher than that of congress.

With all due respect, I doubt anyone has written anything dumber than this in a very long while. Did the loss of so many seats in the House and Senate, and of the White House somehow escape you?

His being “OK with it” is the reason why the GOP is in the worst condition it has been since Watergate, and you’re “OK with it”? Are you out of your mind?

In case you’re not aware, when we gave him our votes and made him our nominee for President in 2000, we also gave him stewardship of our brand as the titular head of the Republican Party.

Once he stood on that stage and accepted our nomination, he relinquished his right to choose to sit back and let himself be ripped apart by the opposition for any reason, because, for good or ill, upon his acceptance and his subsequent victory on Election Day, our fortunes became tied to his.

That he did just that was a betrayal not only of himself but the millions upon millions of men and women who stood behind him, voted for him, donated to his campaigns, walked the streets and made the calls to get him elected and re-elected four years later.

And worse, it was a betrayal of his own Presidency and the Presidency itself as an institution.

A President has no right to refuse to aggressively defend his own honor. It is in fact the duty of every President of the United States to safeguard his own credibility on every front, not just to ensure that the people have faith in his ability to make decisions – but as a matter of national security; nothing terrifies America’s enemies more than a President with the solid backing of the American people.

Bush meekly allowed his Presidency to be made into a laughingstock at home and weakened himself abroad.

It really doesn’t matter whether or not it was unfairly done by the opposition with the help of a partisan Press Corps, the President had opportunities, means and outlets for setting the record straight available well beyond what the Reagan White House would have killed for and he did nothing.

And no, it is certainly not OK.