Pundits are wowed by his basic American- an American original (Mark Shields, NewsHour ; Tim Russert, Meet the Press ); an honest American (Shields, Capital Gang ); a genuine American patriot (Hunt, Capital Gang ); a genuine American hero (Dan Quayle, Fox News Sunday ); and the Bulworth of his generation (Clarence Page, ABC's This Week ).
Page called him the Bulworth of his generation.
Net logic holds that eyeballs equal dollars, and sure enough the controversial site was soon peddling T-shirts and bumper stickers featuring Bush's quote.