Just about everyone is in a lather over Karl Rove's statement. Fair enough. The comments were inflammatory and dishonest. But here's the tactic we all need to pay attention to: the Bush administration and the GOP have backed his comments fully. A repeated tactic employed by Bush & Co. over the years. Have a partisan flame-throw. Let a day go by for the comment to receive fair play in the media, then lend weight to the blasphemy with an endorsement. That helps solidify the Big Lie. So what do the Democrats do when Howard Dean makes a remark that is much less inflammatory -- and more in tune with reality -- that the GOP is a white, Christian organization? All the Dems' top leadership rush to hush the comment. What do you have? Demos who look like pussies, Republicans who appear to have conviction and good-sized balls.