Lawmage:
And here we see the problem with Dax and his ilk...Bush could tell you the sun rises in the east each day and Dax et al would say he was engaged in political posturing and that it was all some Rovian plot...
No, if Bush said the sun was shining, and I saw that the sun was shining, I would believe him.
But as I said in the post you only quoted one sentence of, "the administration has so lost the trust of the American people that no matter what they did would be considered by a battered electorate to be a cynical political move."
That's the point you should address. Did the administration, or did they not, lie and use every possible deception to convince us that the Iraq invasion was justified?
Did they or did they not lie to us at every opportunity, or conceal from us the actual workings of the administration, i.e. Cheney's secret energy conference?
It's not just that I don't trust Bush because I don't trust him. I don't trust him because he has proven himself a liar, a scoundrel, and someone in whom my trust would be seriously misplaced.
You may present evidence to show that Bush didn't lie, that meetings weren't secret or that Bush and CO. are not scoundrels. If you can.