I don’t have time to really properly address this question right now (perhaps later) because I can’t simply list of a bunch of things I like about Bush. The reason? A lot of the things I count as positive you’d absolutely view as negatives and then we’d be thrust into a discussion of values and how they relate to politics.

What I’d ideally like in a President is someone coming from a similar moral framework as myself who’d make decisions consistent with my belief system. Bush is a lot closer in that regard than most other candidates, though he’s done a lot of things I didn’t like and (more importantly) in ways I thought weren’t good. However, on value issues that are very close to my heart he’s going to land a lot closer to me than just about any Democrat. And those values are what I’d list as positives.