I never thought Bush seemed bright enough nor strong enough to accomplish much good. If he attacks a country ruled by a guy who killed a million of his own people, I can live with that. And I would have voted (if I had voted) for him in his last election, just to see that Iraq wasn’t abandoned. But I must admit that that was thinking only in terms of Iraq, and assuming that no other major events might take place that he would have to deal with, like Katrina.
I still would have preferred to have had real choices in both 2000 and 2004, but for the 2004 case at least, I would now be wondering what Kerry would have brought for us.
I would agree that Bush has not done anything which requires impeaching or otherwise being tossed out. But I do think that the nation would be better off if he just admitted that his administration just isn’t up to the job and both he and Cheney stepped down. I would be happier with someone who just sat still and did nothing impressive until the next election than someone who appoints only based on a spoils system, and who ignores all advice and criticism in an unbending belief that everything he believes in to be unequivocally true.
The odds that some third disaster will appear before the end of his term are of course minimal–but really, the job of the president really isn’t meant to exist to be filled by the lowest common denominator. How much do you really want to trust your future to GW Bush’s hands?