If a black man commits a crime against a white man, it should not be punished more severely because that would be discrimination. The media has some fascinating ideas about Bush's weak points. They are saying that Bush will be unpopular because Texas carries out the death penalty.
Most people support the death penalty.
Media is jumping on Bush for opposing gun control. Fighting gun control is an issue which unites the Republican Party's conservative base like no other. It turned out that the person who coined that phrase happened to be the very Democrat who was on that same program. This doesn't surprise me. The elder Bush ran as Reagan's heir in 1988 and won.