The cowboy imagery has outlived its usefulness

It looks like George W. Bush's big shows of clearing brush are over. He and Queen Thorazine are looking for a house in Dallas:

First lady Laura Bush showed off the White House on Wednesday in all its Christmas finery and let slip that the family’s Christmas present was going to be a new home in Dallas.

While prefacing her remarks by saying she "wasn’t making an announcement today," Bush sort of did make one: "We will be moving to Dallas in January. There might be a new house coming along, so that’s where we’re going to be spending our Christmas money."

I wonder how all the people who deluded themselves for eight years that this rhinestone cowboy was some kind of throwback to the macho old west think about this? More importantly, I wonder if they've learned anything from their eight years of self-delusion?