News reporters are damming Bush based on his youthful criminal activities. 
In Newsweek , for example, Stuart Taylor Jr. spends an entire column proposing and defending a better question than the media have asked Bush so  Would you seek long prison terms for today's 18-year-olds for doing what you say you may or may not have done as a young man--and when you now suggest that whatever you did was a mere youthful indiscretion, and thus irrelevant to your candidacy?