Who said he hasn't been successful since? As I said earlier...
His first full season we had the best defense in the league, finished 2nd overall and went all the way to MLS Cup.
His second season we finished first in the league, thus winning the Supporter's Shield and went to the Conference Finals.
Season three: We're on pace to finish top 3 once again.
That's pretty damn "successful" in my book.
Yep. You can't take away what Bruce did for the team when he got here, because you also have to remember what he inherited. Which leads me back to....
The reason Becks makes people so much more angry than Bruce's bunkering is because one decision is a moral one, and the other is a tactical one. People can disagree with Bruce's tactics, even get angry about them, but you can't deny that 1) he brought the team out of the craphole it was in and he did it quickly, and 2) he has the best interests of the Galaxy in his mind when doing so - misguided as it may be.
If it was common knowledge that Bruce's tactics were an attempt to give himself personal favor at the cost of the Galaxy, things would be different. That's why, while the bunkering frustrates me, it doesn't make me want to spray paint banners or quit paying AEG money.
Beckham continues to make moral decisions that value his own flights of fancy above the team performing the way we all want it to.
Just because everybody agrees with you now Lobo, and your earlier "cynicism" was in fact prescient, doesn't mean you have to go back to the contrary. Or, you can, I certainly don't care, but you can't blame anybody for being upset because your dire predictions turned out to be on the mark.