What’s the Worst Thing that Can Happen to an Artist’s Reputation?

WHD Koerner, “A Charge to Keep,” 1916
Being admired by President Bush, apparently..
Jonathan Jones in the British Guardian today enlists a variety of experts to debunk W’s enthusiasm for WHD Koerner‘s 1916 cowboy action painting, “A Charge to Keep.”
The painting itself is knocked for its “exhausted cliché of masculinity” and for its being “fairly dull.” But the experts have the most fun with Bush’s misinterpretation of the work as depiction of determined heroism.
Jones writes that Jacob Weisberg uncovered this fact about the painting, during his research for the new book, “The Bush Tragedy”:
It was first used in the Saturday Evening Post in 1916 to illustrate a story about a horse thief, and captioned as a picture of his flight from the law.

Speaking of things presidential, my main computer got fried during a power surge that occurred in my building while I was watching the Democratic debate. My blogging is hobbled.
Is this a sign that I should vote Republican? Or is it a negative comment on that other surge?
Everything is subject to diverse interpretation.