Imagine this: In 1970, the Tezas Air National Guard unit that George W. Bush served in is rotated to South VIetnam.
George W. Bush, then a Lieutenent in his air wing flies several sorties and makes a decent share of kills. Then he is shot down and captured. The North Vietnamese hold him as a prisoner of War until he is repatriated in 1973.
When he comes home, Lt. Bush is a different man. He is somber, and serious. Barbara Bush laments that she no longer knows her son. George H.W. Bush is angered by his son's apparent dissaffection with "Traditional values".
George hits the road and spends several years metting people and seeing the United States as it is. When he returns, George enters college. Eventually gaining a Master's certificate in Political science with a minor in AMerican history.
Fast forward to George as the Governor of Texas. George is a very liberatarian Governor, having seen the fruitlessness of doctrinal overcontrols in North Vietnam. Many in the party call him "RINO".
Republican In Name Only.
Despite this, in 2001, He is inaugurated as America's 43rd President.
How do you feel this much different and more hardened man will deal with the Republic, and with the threat of Bin Laden and the Taliban?