This is why:

He is an evangelical Christian.

He is anti-abortion. Although single issue politics might be a Bad Thing, this holocaust of innocents needs to take centre stage.

He acts on his convictions even when they are unpopular.

He thinks freedom is better than autocracy.

He fought the war in Iraq for the right reasons; see the previous point.

His English is better than the average left-wing North American television news reader.

Michael Moore hates him.

From the National Post:

The Strongest Tribe by Bing West is a masterpiece of battlefield reporting. West was on the front lines when American troops beat insurgents back block-by-block in Ramadi, Fallujah and Baghdad. He describes the failures of planning and strategy that pushed Iraq to the brink of anarchy in 2004 and again in 2006 – and the strategic changes that brought the nation back to some semblance of normalcy in 2007 and 2008.

Critics of Bush often use hysterical moral language to attack the man: evil, Nazi, warmonger, monster, tyrant. History, I believe, will judge him in more nuanced terms. Bush is, in a phrase, a reckless optimist. His unwavering faith in the goodness within human beings and the redemptive power of freedom led him into a bloody and unwise adventure, one that resulted in the slaughter of untold thousands of innocent Iraqis. Yet that same sense of moral courage also led him to stand by the unfinished project when the lives of millions more hung in the balance. But not for Bush’s bold January, 2007 decision, there is no telling what sort of hell would by now have engulfed Iraq.

When we consign this man to the history books, let’s be sure that both sides of the story get told.