You can probably guess this one already.

I'm remembering the screams of outrage when Cheney used the F-word at a closed function. I also remember the complete indifference to John Kerry's use of the same word multiple times in a Rolling Stone interview.

I remember the shock and horror when Bush said quietly, off-mike (he thought), that a particular journalist was, well, a donkey. And I remember the utter lack of censure when Whoopi Goldburg publicly compared Bush to a certain part of her anatomy and gestured lewdly.

I recall the screams of shock and horrified outrage at Coulter's comparison of widows to witches, and decidedly unkind remarks regarding Monica's corpulence. And, of course, in contrast, I notice most the members of The View are smiling, pleasantly at DeVito's obscene tirade against a man he's never met. On national TV.

Well, he did apologize to Barbara Walters.

I often think Bush is God's litmus test. Before Bush, there was a veneer: We're more caring. We're more moral. We love our enemies more. We're just objective reporters. Not any more: Bush brings out the derangement, the utter seething hatred that is just looking for a target.

Yes, I remember something similar under Reagan. The endless unkind remarks and public mockery. The constant prime-time ridicule of the man as an incompetant idiot and parrot. As evil-hearted and hating everyone -- as if his enemies could truly peer into his soul. And the endless stacks of dishonest news reports. (I possess a nice compendium of them.) But this is far worse.

God help the man who believes in conservative policies and tries to help his country by running for office: there is no threshhold of disgusting behavior below which your enemies are not allowed to stoop these days.

Sorry for wearing my heart out on my sleeve and venting here: I'm not even a huge Bush fan, but I think the way he's treated is simply disgusting. I can't imagine how Laura and his children must feel to see someone they love dearly and look up to degraded incessantly in the media.