How Karl Rove lost a generation of Republicans

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Subject: FT.com / Comment & analysis / Comment - How Karl Rove lost a generation of Republicans

Date: 8/14/2007 3:53:24 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time

Interesting commentary by James Carville, whom I normally regard as full of crap, but who this time appears to be on the money. After all, it took Bush and Cheney to get me to vote Democratic again, something I never thought I would ever do. Of course, he's still wrong about the 2000 election, which was certified by a panel of Democratic newspaper editors who formed an investigative panel after all the hue and cry from the Democrats. Still, his larger point is right on: that the corruption, imbecilic foreign policy and unconstitutional action at home has damaged the Republican's hold on votes that they should have been able to count on for the next 30 years. But he's wrong that it's all Karl Rove's fault; after all, the policies put in place were largely thought up by Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz and approved by The Decider, all of whom must bear the larger share of the blame.

Only the Democrats could lose this election by nominating someone odious like Hillary, which is probably what they are going to do, giving the GOP its only hope, however undeserved it may be.