The End of Rove's Dream: "For Rove, there's no exit from the hell he's created."

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WP: The End of Rove's Dream
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Karl Rove's dream was that George W. Bush's presidency would usher in a permanent Republican majority. But as with so many of the Bush White House's big ideas, things didn't exactly go according to plan.

We'll know for sure by tomorrow, but it looks more and more like the end result of eight years of Bush has been the discrediting of his party and the loss of its commanding position in American politics.

Turning the executive branch into a political arm of the Republican Party, stoking fear and division amid the electorate, trashing opponents without mercy, and casting national security as a wedge issue -- all these tactics had short-term benefits, and indeed won Bush a second term. But ultimately, they seem to have lost America....

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Democratic activist Glenn W. Smith blogs for Firedoglake: "Karl Rove's deepest fantasy was that in the future, some lonely and ambitious young person would read of him as he once read of Mark Hanna, the political operative who guided President William McKinley's successful 1896 campaign. He saw himself as a right-wing hero who had insured a generation of Republican rule. . . .

"This is the year America judges Karl Rove. It appears to be a harsh judgment. . . .

"For Rove, there's no exit from the hell he's created. America is at war in two foreign countries. America's reputation among the nations is at an all-time low. The economy is tanking. The Republican Party has been scattered.

"Winning campaigns is not hard. It takes no genius. Politics is checkers, not chess. It's true that the pathological sometimes have an advantage. But that advantage is due to their cold remove from a truly human universe. And it's always temporary, because, in the end, for better or worse, what is human is not virtual. We are not pretend. Politics is not PlayStation.

"And Rove's virtual fantasy has come unplugged."...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/11/04/BL2008110401933_pf.html

[Uben]

1. He'll rot in that hell, too!

He will have to look over his shoulder the remaining days of his life. Someone that has been so dishonest and has totally screwed Americans will never rest. I wouldn't be him for a bazillion dollars.

[acmavm]

2. Not soon enough for me.

[VPStoltz]

3. I wish we could get him to do a little fermenting in a jail cell before

the unset of full on rot in hell.