From Salon.com’s War Room:

What Americans really think of Bush

Twice a year, pollsters for the Pew Research Center ask Americans to say the “one word that best describes” their “impression of George W. Bush.” As late as February 2005, the top two volunteered responses were “honest” and “good.” The new top two: “incompetent” and “arrogant.”

“Honest” has fallen to No. 3. Rounding out the top 10: “good,” “idiot,” “integrity,” “leader,” “strong,” “stupid” and “ignorant.” “Ass” checks in at No. 13, “president” sits at No. 18, and “unconfident” brings up the rear at No. 32.

– Tim Grieve

What’s funny to me is that the pollsters don’t prompt at all — they just ask for one word (and accept two, but don’t prompt for the second). And since the last election, the list of words that jump out of people’s mouths at the sound of his name has just been getting longer and longer, with nineteen words between “honest” and “selfish” in February 2004 and thirty one between “incompetent” and “tough” in March 2006. The longer the man’s in office the harder it gets to sum up just what the American people think of him.