Wednesday, August 31, 2011 When George Bush ran for U.S. President in 2004, he trounced John Kerry in the "who you'd rather have a beer with" poll. And for good reason, too -- Kerry, the perennially stone-faced New England intellectual, seemed more likely to lecture a drinking partner than have one too many and fall asleep watching Armageddon. Bush had the opposite appeal. Bush's handlers trumpeted the question as proof of presidential likeability and (therefore) electability. We all know how that turned out.
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