re: So he's doing a Specter
This is different from any other politician in what way?
True enough. On the other hand, whatever else you might say of Bush, he is true to his own vision and ideas, regardless of how many people give him crap for it. His stubborness on this kind of thing is one of the things that ticks a lot of people off, and makes others like him.
Whether his ideas are good ones or not is, of course, open to reasonable argument.