The following is excerpted from a psychological profile of Adolph Hitler, prepared by the OSS during World War II (Source: A Psychological Analysis of Adolph Hitler: His Life and Legend, Walter C. Langar, OSS), per Wikipedia.
His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one, and if you repeat it frequently enough, people will sooner or later believe it.
And you wonder why Sarah Palin keeps repeating the "Bridge From Nowhere" lie, parroted by McCain. Notice the pattern, and how it matches the profile?
George Orwell put it a little more succinctly in 1984:
The keyword here is blackwhite. Like so many newspeak words, this word has two mutually contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that black is white in contradiction of the plain facts.
Karl Rove is not an innovator. He's just a good reader. Is it time this is exposed for what it is? Is it too much to give Adolph Hitler the credit for Rovian strategy and tactics? I don't know, but since we're talking about the core of Republican politics here, I'll rely on the words of George Bush: It is what it is.