This joke was sent by the Note in an e-mail today.
"The new joke in Washington -- told by all gallows, quasi-panicked Democrats -- goes like this: "John Kery read in The Note that this was his race to lose, and he's giving it his best shot." Someday, Karl Rove's precocious grandchildren will say to him, "Grandpapa, what's it like to run a presidential campaign against an opponent who has had his own background thoroughly researched well before the general election; who is broadly personable and possessed of great campaign skills; and who projects an image of constancy?" To which Grandpapa Rove will reply, "I haven't the slightest idea." "
At least they're no longer attempting to hide their own biases. Somehow, I have great doubt that any Democrat is actually telling this joke. It does sound like the kind of thing Karl Rove would say, having done his best to slander, malign, and libel his opponent so that it appears he is none of those things.