So how bad was George W. Bush's final State of the Union Address? And how anxious are Republicans about today's Florida presidential primary?

Well, last night, long after Bush concluded his speech, I decided to check out National Review's site for SOTU reaction. No quick-react articles at all. And at NR's The Corner blog, most of the talk was about Florida, with only an occasional irritable reference to Democrats being rude to Bush at the SOTU by not applauding this or that (as though congressional Republicans had not made a science of that during the Clinton years). Most of the Corner participants are half-crazed over the Romney Surge in FL, and worried that McCain's last-minute endorsement by Gov. Charlie Crist may spoil it all.

To be sure, there's a dutiful, phoned-in-sounding roundtable discussion of the SOTU up at NRO this morning, but it's nestled amongst even more obsessive talk about Florida. George W. Bush is just a distraction.

Indeed, you get the feeling that if anyone mentioned "Bush" to conservative activists this morning, they'd assume you were talking about Jeb Bush, thought to be the shadowy presence behind Romney's FL campaign, and locked in a Texas--er, I mean Florida--Death Match with the godless "moderate" Charlie Crist.

BTW, for us Democrats, The New Republic has posted a useful guide to the Bush-Crist rivalry by FL reporter S.V. Date. Ideology aside, they both want to be in the position to make State of the Union Addresses someday.