Did they? I must have missed it...
The whole of your content, as far as I can see, is describing how rotten Bush is/was. Bush never entered into the descussion. It was a statement to Silverlock about Clinton's cowardice. This is not a relative thing. Nobody said anything about being more or less cowardly than sombody else.
I never said ANYTHING about supporting or recommending Bush.
I also never said it was a 'bad thing' to have somebody with smarts in the oval office. Intelligence is not sufficient in itself. To paraphrase sombody or other, Abe Lincoln possibly: Mr. Clinton is a very smart man. I had a wonderful, very smart chemistry professor. The professor should not have been President of the Unites States. Neither should have Mr. Clinton...
As Ashton correctly pointed out, there needs to be a lot of work on the selection system before we are likely to get somebody halfway decent in office. The system seems to favor slime, and one brand of slime is no better than the other. (the last is my opinion only, I don't recall Ashton saying that.)