"Communing with the Higher Father and the Almighty, President Bush has either stumbled into a Holy War or swaggered into one... In their new book, 'The Bushes,' Peter and Rochelle Schweizer, who interviewed many Bushes, including the president's father and his brother Jeb, quote one unnamed relative as saying that W. sees the war on terror 'as a religious war': 'He doesn't have a P.C. view of this war. His view of this is that they are trying to kill the Christians. And we the Christians will strike back with more force and more ferocity than they will ever know.'... Bush strategists seem to believe that the worse Mr. Bush makes things, the better off he is, because nervous Americans will cling to the obstinate president they know over the vacillating challenger they don't know."
-- Maureen Dowd, The New York Times