If only Republicans could get this kind of press from Time.

Well, Ahmadinejad only wants to exterminate all the Jews, wipe Israel off the map, and behead all non-believers. Whereas Republicans oppose same-sex marriage --- the barbarians!

Besides, Ahmadinejad drives a Peugeot... a French car. That instantly makes him morally superior to those Republican barbarians in SUVs.

That's bad, especially when you compare it to how they describe Bush and Lord Cheney:

After winning re-election and claiming a mandate, the President and his No. 2 quickly squandered their political capital. Social Security reform, Iraq, Harriet Miers, Hurricane Katrina, the CIA-leak case, torture—on issue after issue, Bush and Cheney stumbled and saw their popularity drop. Although the team's numbers are improving somewhat, Republicans are facing next fall's midterm congressional elections with trepidation.

As President Bush tried to find his footing this year, these two Senators often proved to be more influential. McCain badgered Bush into backing his proposal to bar U.S. officials from torturing suspects abroad, while Reid, as Senate Democratic leader, kept his party unified in torpedoing the President's plan to create personal accounts for Social Security.

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plumb - as in "straight up and down" - not plum.

And let's not forget Mayor Ray Nagin, who "embodied the pain" of New Orleans.

Could he have done more to get his people out before Katrina hit? Probably. But once the levees broke, the mayor of New Orleans embodied the pain and frustration of his city, even cursing on the radio as he joined thousands of stranded residents in wondering why their government had failed them.

"If only Republicans could get this kind of press from Time."

The msm and the 'chattering classes' hate Bush in particular and Republicans and Christians in general far more than they fear anything or anyone else.