Shorter Jonah Goldberg: 

"Yes, Bush looked the other way while New Orleans drowned.  Yes, his Iraqi war is one big clusterfuck.  Yes, he hasn’t done squat to capture Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the worst attack on this country in our history.  Yes, Bush likes to violate our civil liberties.  But these are just superficial and transient issues, so don’t you think he deserves a little slack?"