Similar to my own, from Joshua Zader:

As a libertarian-minded person, I’ve got plenty to be mad at Bush about. But disagreeing with someone’s beliefs and actions is not the same as hating them, and I think that’s a distinction held in place only by our own allegiance to integrity.

I don’t believe for a minute that the rampant Bush hatred going around is the direct result of his actions. There has been a very deliberate and sustained campaign, by liberal partisans, to stir up Bush hatred since the contested 2000 elections.

Yup.

BDS = lack of integrity

Bush hatred comes from Democrat conviction that the Iraq war was just an obvious lever for re-election. It certainly served well in that capacity. Combined with the narrow win in Florida that makes Bush a usurper of the first water. If Gore had won, say by SCOTUS decision, followed by 9-11 and a prolonged war, I can see where Republicans would be in the same mode.

The real problem is that this country has lost the concept of integrity, and while politics have always been dirty, this is the worst I can remember in my lifetime. Even Nixon didn't protest when Mayor Daily's dead legions put Kennedy over the top, but Al Gore didn't have a second thought. So naturally, if your side would go to war to cover up a scandal, then your hated opponent would obviously do so to stay in office.

It's not just Bush. The Democrats have been engaging in dishonest personal attack politics for decades. Rather than engaging in a discussion of ideas they have tried to dismiss all Republican presidents and presidential candidates and many candidates for other offices as weak or incompetent or warmongers or whatever. It has simply reached a peak of ridiculous hatefulness with Bush for reasons I am not certain of. It could simply be the cognitive dissonance of claiming he's a moron and a master conspirator.

I'm sorry, I know this is serious, but I love to read deranged anti-Bush rants for their comedic value (you would think they would love Bush, he's as conservative as Clinton was). I get more giggles from Daily Kos, and HuffPo, than from any comedy in TV and movies.