best growth we have ever seen. we didn't learn that lesson as voters. so i don't think voters necessarily learn the lesson. >> i agree with you as a matter of substance. i'm talking about the politics in terms of the likelihood of the. >> what we have learned about voters, they're very irrational and don't have much of a long-term memory. oh, dear. let's insult --. what's so ironic, george w. bush who left office with job approval in the low 30s has a successor who is extending, as i said, the foundation of his economic policy, has emgatelated the surge that he green lighted in afghanistan. and has not closed gitmo, and likely to have a very large contingent of u.s. troops in iraq when he leaves office. >> ralph? >> this shakespearean kind of situation. >> i'm getting shivers. the other night on this show, i said i want to talk about george the third. and i said not the king of