Every time I post something about Bush, the affection bubbles up in the comments. And every time I post something about the tea party and partisanship, bitterness about his free-spending ways bubbles up too. Which is it? Are we Dubya fans, or is Dubya officially now “part of the problem”? We can’t bear-hug him on the book while simultaneously deriding his chief henchman as some sort of elitist cancer on the party, can we? Inquiring candy-ass RINOs want to know!

Incidentally, if we’re willing to redeem G-Dub, can we redeem Peggy Noonan too? An actual line from her new column out tomorrow: “[T]he tea party is not a ‘threat’ to the Republican Party, the tea party saved the Republican Party.” Dude?