taking a pass on this one. I have not heard anyone dancing to Rove's tune. They seem to just be scratching their heads. If they could pass the war off on the Dems they would do it in a heartbeat--but they know damn well it is their war. They seem to be treating him as a once loved uncle who has started hitting the bottle to hard.

It comes back to that famous (but not famous enough) quote of Karl Rove told to Ron Suskind -

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The aide [now known to be Karl Rove] said that guys like me [writer Ron Suskind] were ”in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who ”believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ”That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued. ”We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
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If you have complete control of the public dialog then you can make up whatever reality you choose. Haven't we, the last seven years, lived (and many died) due to that fact.

In it's simplest terms, we're supposed to believe that Karl Rove didn't want to do the unseemly thing and make war a political election issue. Karl Rove! He and Republicans were forced to make it an issue by Democrats. And Charley Rose didn't laugh in his face.