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To be blunt, historical precedent got Bush elected. I remember that as somehow being a position of Bush or something, somehow. To give him credit I don't think he came up with it, I think that the MSM just kept saying it over and over again "America has never voted out a war-time President". I heard it ALOT... and I was only 15 in the last general election.
"Nobody ever said Bush did a great job with the war."
--So why did cons reward him with a second term? What had he accomplished that earned him four more years?
To be blunt, historical precedent got Bush elected. I remember that as somehow being a position of Bush or something, somehow. To give him credit I don't think he came up with it, I think that the MSM just kept saying it over and over again "America has never voted out a war-time President". I heard it ALOT... and I was only 15 in the last general election.