I’ve struggled with using the word “treason” myself. It sometimes feels like treason, but when I look it up, the definition is as you say. Then I twist and turn things to make whatever I’m upset about fit “aiding the enemy,” but it’s a rationalization, and I know it is. But as to, “He may be misguided, but I don’t doubt his love for the US.” There are some “traitors” or “actors in a treasonous drama” who are just crooks, or even enemy sympathizers. But there are also people who become over-zealously involved in their opposition to some force and become “treasonous” out of a misguided love of country. The comment by joyhollywood points to a blog post by Larisa Alexandrovna that characterizes Bush’s grandfather as exactly such a person.

I don’t question Bush’s love of the U.S. I would question his respect for what American government is – of, by, and for the people. It reminds me of a song on Paul Simon’s Graceland album that has the line, “I don’t want no part of your crazy love”…