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if all you have to bitch about is his personal life
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I'm not bitching. I'm just putting another interpretation. And when a thread on Bush's policies comes up I will gladly post some ideas on it. This is a post about the Bush 'the man' and as such issues of his personal life will be raised.
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he's a "what you see is what you get" kind of guy
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If by this you mean that he doesn't try and hide his flaws, then so what? He has a limited grasp of world politics and a simplistic vision of the world, and chooses to openly demonstrate this. Great.
However, I don't think that what you see is the real GW at all. I think it is carefully engineered and stage managed to make the very best of a bad lot. For the latter part of his presidential campaign that meant shutting him up completely.
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you can not graduate from Harvard and be an idiot
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You have a lot of faith in the meritocracy of great universities. Given unlimited personal support and a lot of leniency, as Bush would have been, then pretty much anyone can pass at university. What we know about Bush was that - and this is by his own admission - he was a C student and got by with reading hardly any books at all. A hard working C is one thing. So is a lazy A. But a lazy C indicates a collection of character flaws that don't fit well with the duties of President.
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but he gets his point across
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Does he? If his point really is that the world divides along a good/evil, us/them line then maybe he does. But somehow I suspect that there is more to US policy than the clumsy slogans and malapropisms that Bush proclaims. Or at least I hope there is.