It was fascinating how quickly on election night the historical revisionism began. As the outcome became clear, one Conservative commentator favorably equated the fervor of evangelicals who twice supported Bush with the enthusiasm of progressives now committed to Obama. But Bush was a bumbler with a mediocre intellect (at best) who could barely mutter a coherent sentence and should reasonably have inspired no one; whereas Obama obviously posseses a prodigious intellect and is capable of soaring rhetoric that can inspire and uplift even his critics; the pundit confused zealotry with zeal.