 But regardless of how you slice it, between then and now, nobody looked at George H.W. Bush. And I love George H.W. Bush. Nobody looked at him and said, hey, this guy's, nah, he's cool. I think he's got a point. George W. Bush was cool throughout the greatest first pitch in the history of baseball in a post-9-11 world. But the Republicans were never going to be considered cool because they lied our way into the Iraq war with help of the Democrats.