I think a lot of the frustration comes from the facts his failures will tarnish the conservative message, but his failures have largely been when pursuing liberal objectives.
I think you're right. Clinton was a better president for the 'movement' than Bush, in a sense.
I used to defend W on most of the things he did, but he has lost me on all things but the embrace of a real counter-insurgency plan in Iraq (aka Surge) and I am very worried he will abandon that in September. Otherwise he is just pissing me off, and making my summer job more difficult (angry constituents complaining, rightfully, about the immigration bill)
I'm right with you Steve (except I deal more with customers than constituents).
And truthfully, I think he has lost a lot on Iraq as well, as things are still rather bleak. You can only blame the "liberal media" for so long before accepting that things are just not going to well in our rebuilding efforts. Not to discredit the efforts of our troops, who work hard and I believe have made progress in various areas. However, the overall strategy seems untenable to me.
I don't know what he's doing with his immigration thing. He's hurting himself with whatever base he has left while not really wooing too many Democrats either (except for our leadership, which itself appears more and more hapless these days - maybe our only true "leaders" are too busy running for president).
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