Yea, and it's pretty damn obvious too.
The whole 'Dems pushed us to war' thing just shows that Rove is a self-deluded jackass who substitutes wishful thinking for reason.
Karl Rove destroyed the Regan Coalition.
With a submissive media, a terrified electorate, and a nation at WAR, he barely eked out 2004 - and we all know what went down in Ohio. He lost in 2000, to an opponent who sucked at politics. [Gore said so himself. Politics is too trivial.]
Rove is one of history's greatest mistakes. A man who was dealt a winning hand and a fat stack of chips, and managed to lose his whole bankroll in a few short years.
Rove, the man, is a self-deluded piglet.
Rove, the narrative device, is just part of the classic storylines journalists lean on.
Distinguishing the fiction from the reality isn't that hard, is it?
I repeatedly hear/read people compare Rove to Machiavelli.
Comparing Rove to Machiavelli is an insult to Machiavelli and anyone who has actually read his work.
Machiavelli was not a slime merchant, he was a thinker.
Machiavelli said that hiring mercenaries was BAD because they would steal from you, and weren't willing to die for you [Blackwater, anyone?].
Machiavelli said that you needed to reward your advisors for their candor, because you need honest council.
Karl Rove is nothing. He is just a lucky idiot. Really.
Just because the media thinks otherwise does not make it so.
We all know that Cheney runs the show up there. Karl is just a hatchetman, and he's pretty fucking sloppy. Just ask David Iglesias.
I'm looking forward to 2-3 years from now, when the 'Rove was a fucking idiot/Rove drove the Republican party off a cliff' Meme dominates.