Why is TV's newest talking head being held up as a paragon of political analysis at the very moment the Republican president he helped mold is in complete free fall?
President Bush's current second-term debacle exceeds any other White House calamity in modern times. Yet Karl Rove, the "brains" behind the president who has become "radioactive" inside his own party, is toasted in the press as a political wise man. Since when do the spoils go to the loser?
It's simply a continuation of the gooey, ongoing crush the Beltway press has had on Rove, who for years was credited in the media for building the Republican Party into a sleek, hardball-playing, election-winning vessel that could out-race the dawdling Democrat boat with ease.
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