Andrew Sullivan says he doesn’t hate George W. Bush. I take his word for it, though considering the rhetorical lengths he goes to it’s sometimes hard to tell.
In all honesty, however, I got the notion that he “despises” Bush from something I recalled incorrectly. I could have sworn a friend of mine had told me that Sullivan had written in Esquire that he “detests” Bush. Apparently it got garbled in my memory. Sorry about that.