So much has already been said about the below-the-belt tactics of late by Karl Rove but really, why is anyone surprised?
This is a person (he could be a droid but I'm certainly not getting close enough to check) who will stop at nothing. There is no 'bottoming out' for Rove because, in his universe, entertaining such a foolish and incomprehensible question only gets in the way.
His is but one concern: what will work?
Achieving the goal is Rove's only consideration. He doesn't sling mud, he fires excrement.
Ask Kenneth Ingram. Ask Alan Dixon. Ask Mark Kennedy. Ask Mark White. Ask Ann Richards. Ask Rob Mosbacher Jr. Ask John McCain. Ask John Kerry.
The only thing sacred to Rove is victory. At any and all costs.
Steal an opponent's stationary and issue a faux announcement, link a judge committed to helping youth to pedophilia, discover (glory be, how'd that get there?) a listening device in your own candidate's office, hint about the sexuality of an opposing candidate, get fired in 1992 for planting a story about the Texas Republican presidential operation being in disarray, label another Republican as unstable and a homosexual and then drag his wife and child into the muck with charges of drug addiction and being a prostitute's daughter, (dis)respectively.
Rove should write for Hollywood.
Team him up with such pliable raw material as George W. Bush, whose withered psyche was in desperate need of any sort of personal success, and stand back as the synergy roars. Each completes the other.
Yes, TIME (Person Of The Week) and other publications and newspapers will feature Rove as a brilliant tactician but none will ask him, let alone President Bush, to justify their tactics vis-a-vis their Christian beliefs. That's a no-no. After all, we are talking about the President of the United States and his chief political advisor. Nowadays, you don't go there if you wish to remain, let alone climb the corporate ladder.
When John McCain challenged George Bush during the South Carolina primary and was pelted with about as unsavory an attack as could be conceived, George (Jesus is in my heart) Bush answered: "It's just politics, John."
And Jesus' crucifixion was just another in the long line.
Rove is just doing what he does best. It matters not to him and certainly not to his boss, President Bush, that planting the wavering GOP flag amid the 3,000+ corpses of 9/11 is desecration, that it is piggybacking on the evil perpetrated by Osama Ben-Laden.
Bedding with Ben Laden? Well if that's what it takes to win...