re: #472 freetoken
GWB is a scion of an American nobility, so to speak, and he was trained to make himself at least marginally competent in the pleasantries that nobility practice.
SarahEsther is from, as us Marxists like to say, a lower class.
The good prince. He is also better educated and has a more worldly view. Additionally he had far greater governing experience. Another difference is that Bush, like him or not, was genuine. When he was being self-deprecating, as he would sometimes be, he was being himself. Palin on the other hand always comes across as putting on an act.