Not that there's anything wrong with that. But can it be that he doesn't really spend hours and hours cuttin' brush on his ranch in Crawford? You know, the horse-free zone?
Maybe he's only less macho than he pretends to be? Is he just another pretend cowboy? By God, Teddy Roosevelt, that once-sickly asthmatic from New York went out there and did it: slept in the open, hunted his food, survived winters on the plains, captured rustlers, and earned his way into the White House.
Anyway, for some evidence:
At Tenuta's Italian Restaurant in Kenosha, the following took place:
Jessica Dorau, a 17-year-old employee of Tenuta's, shook hands with Bush. "His hands are very soft," she said. "He must use some powerful lotion."
There you are. And they do say he's afraid of horses...'Course, that's not girly.