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What Rove Hath Wrought

05 May 2008 09:01 am

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The durable minority status for the GOP will be his legacy. The partisan i.d. gap is now at its biggest in history. And this result Saturday night - when a Republican seat for thirty years was lost in Louisiana - may be a harbinger of the coming collapse.

One question: why does anyone still take one of the worst political strategists seriously?

He is responsible for a historic trashing of his own party. He has managed the least popular president in polling history; he has presided over the loss of both houses of Congress for his party; he has turned an entire generation off the conservative brand and message ... and yet he is still a "genius." Is the MSM unable to relinquish a narrative when it is utterly disproved by reality? I thought that was the Republican leadership's specialty.

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