I have talked before about the Left's hatred of Bush and the feeling that is even stronger then the Right's abhorrence of Clinton. Writers are now admitting it as if it's a badge of honor:

The words tumble out, the hands gesture urgently, as Jonathan Chait explains why he hates George W. Bush.

It's Bush's radical policies, says the 31-year-old New Republic writer, and his unfair tax cuts, and his cowboy phoniness, and his favors for corporate cronies, and his heist in Florida, and his dishonesty about his silver-spoon upbringing, and, oh yes, the way he walks and talks.

For some of his friends, Chait says at a corner table in a downtown Starbucks, "just seeing his face or hearing his voice causes a physical reaction -- they have to get away from the TV. My sister-in-law describes Bush's existence as an oppressive force, a constant weight on her shoulder, just knowing that George Bush is president."

That, and the fact that the "idiotic moron" Bush keeps outsmarting them. I think these Bush haters have an uphill battle trying to unseat him. The economy is picking up, the gay rights advances in the last year will mobilize the religious Right, and even though the war is not as easy as most Americans (except Americans who paid attention) would like, I think people know that it is important and crucial.

Update: Read about the most ardent Bush haters, who apparently has lost his friggin' mind. With the exception of Ann Coulter, no one on the Right had this much venom against Clinton.