Instapundit's 6-year mancrush on Bush.

Putz and Hew commemorate six years of the nonpartisan's praising Bush and bashing Democrats. What's rather revealing is just how enamored Putz was about Bush in that first week of Instapundit.

It's literally one pro-Bush post after another.

Bullmoose thinks that it's the tepid response of the pro-lifers that's terrible. Bush has betrayed them, says the moose, but they don't care so long as they maintain access. I think that's unfair.

SO FAR SO GOOD FOR BUSH: Quickie polls show support for his decision, and he's getting a pretty substantial degree of support even from conservatives who don't really agree with him.

MORE ON BUSH AND STEM CELLS: Did Bush "thread the needle" on this one? Jonah Goldberg seems to think so, and I think so too.

Speaking of my wife, she gave Bush good points for presentation -- and especially brevity: "It was only ten minutes," she said approvingly. "Clinton would have gone on for an hour."

Interestingly, when he [Bush] was elected most people thought (to varying degrees of approval or disapproval) that he would be a water-carrier for the hard-right Christian conservatives and prolifers. It hasn't worked out that way.

SOME FURTHER THOUGHTS: I was watching Alan Keyes in the FoxNews followup blatherfest. Keyes is playing right into Bush's hands...

INSTAPUNDIT CALLS IT AGAIN: Yep, see below. I'm sure the Europeans are fuming. The speech was well-done, and Bush will score politically from it.

BIG BUSH STEM-CELL PREDICTION: I predict that he'll support stem-cell research.

Still dead wrong, after all these years. Happy Birthday Putz!