Reply #3: letting him win in November would be very bad!

[Lisa]

He could simultaneously avenge his dad's 1992 defeat, AND outdo him at the same time. And if Poppy were jealous, he wouldn't be able to show it, because it's just not "done" in that aristocratic circle, for a father to be anything but proud of a son who's bested his accomplishments.

Not that George W. listens to his dad's advice, but he'd be impossible to live with after a triumph like that. Excuse the Freudian aspects here, but he'd have symbolically done away with "the weak father" and supplanted him -- something that Bar Bush set him up for so many years ago, by relying on him to be the boss of his younger siblings, with Dad away from home so much.