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"Liar," "radical right-winger,""extremist," "usurper," "menace
to our liberty," "arrogant cowboy." That's just a sample of the
epithets Democrats throw at President Bush.
What's the cause of Bush-hatred?

I think it's partly cultural, partly political, partly deserved,
mostly misguided-and so extreme that it hurts Democrats far more
than it does Bush. It's the mirror image of the hatred
Republicans bore toward Democratic president Bill Clinton, whom
they impeached....

Just as Clinton-hatred caused Republicans to lose five House
seats in the off-year election of 1998-and led them to jettison
Speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.)-Bush-hatred is liable hurt Democrats
this year....

Democrats have convinced themselves that the 2000 election was
"stolen." In fact, an expensive, independent newspaper recount
of valid ballots in the state showed that Bush won by 493 votes.

Democrats also resent and fear Bush's "pre-emptive" foreign
policy, which conflicts with their post-Vietnam reluctance to
use force and desire to nestle in the bosom of international
consensus.

In the end, Bush's presidency - and America's place in the world
- will rise or fall on the basis of whether he has used force
wisely or rashly. The jury is still out, but at the moment
Americans are on his side.

And that, I think, is what galls Democrats most. Bush has been
politically successful. He got his tax cuts through a Democratic
Senate. He won a historic victory in the 2002 mid-term
elections. He's leading his foremost (and angriest) Democratic
rival, Howard Dean, by 20 points in the polls.

Instead of looking in the mirror and trying to figure out what
is wrong with them, Democrats vent at Bush. It's a disastrous
strategy.