Is Bush authoritarian? I don't think even the most ardent liberal would seriously venture to make that claim in public.
Me! I will. And I'm not all that ardent. He's got an inconvenient legacy system he's still trying to get around but he's working on it. Have you read the stuff we say about Bush and Blair and co around here?
Writing something on an internet blog as a hobby and actually making the same claim as a professional politician are two very different things...