Every so often, I like to link to an article that gets things completely wrong and this piece by Andrew Sullivan may be one such article. It's one of these psychological profiles of an elected official written by someone who doesn't know the guy at all and is extrapolating all sorts of things about him from a few public utterances and deeds. Sullivan also isn't a psychologist but that's okay. Those who've studied in that area tend to make even wilder assumptions when they do a long-distance diagnosis of a stranger. They're all kind of like Bill Frist discussing Terri Schiavo.
Note that I'm not saying Sullivan is wrong. I'm saying he may be wrong. The guy is guessing from afar, speculating on what's going on in George W. Bush's mind based on very little evidence. I'm not sure people who work with G.W.B. every day are qualified to make some of these deductions but a guy who's never met him certainly isn't. I didn't think these psychiatric explorations had any worth when they were about Bill Clinton (nearly all were sure he'd divorce Hillary as soon as he was out of office) and I don't think the ones about Bush have any value, either.