Am I the Only One that Doesn't Think Rove is a Genius?
It seems like every time someone brings up Rove, everyone scatters and hides under the bed. "Oh god, he wrote an article, run for your lives!".
I hear about all of these shady, super secret Rovian strategies to rig voting machines, manipulate polls, pass crazy laws, raise billions of dollars for Republicans, steal elections, put subliminal messages into ads; he is like a right wing ninja, striking with deadly efficiency. He is such a manipulative genius he could convince any of us to cut our own head off with a butter knife, if he wanted. He is the most dangerous man in America. 
The thing is, I don't quite understand where this reputation comes from. I see him more as a petty weasel that may have helped Bush politically, at some points, but otherwise has done very little to earn his reputation. All I see is a man who's advice works about 15% of the time and who's predictions are almost always widely off. He seems less like the devil incarnate and more like a petty con artist who happens to know some rich and powerful people. He seems to be more on par with a used car salesman screwing little old ladies on their trade ins and less of a deadly political assassin.
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He's evil. But, he's no genius.
