Comments on Rove's Delusions

God I wish I could have seen Rove's face on election night... I can only imagine the look of absolute horror as he watched the power he so coveted pulled out from underneath him.

Then I'm sure he slinked back to hell to unwind.

Did anybody see that movie "The Grifters," with Cusack and Bening? There's a character in there that Bening alludes to in flashbacks, a genius grifter played by J.T. Walsh. He takes huge risks and has huge successes, but he was fundamentally unstable. At one point, he snaps. In the scene, he's half-naked and screaming, seemingly in the midst of mad delusions, crushed with paranoia. His genius flirted with madness, as is often the case, and madness won out. I believe Rove has now passed that point as well, his genius for cynical manipulation succumbing to the madness of his own inhumanity.

I hope this ends the perception that Rove is some invincible political genius and ends his career.

Well, seriously folks, what else would you have expected Rove to have said?

What? You're surprised that a professional spinner/liar would spin and lie to NPR, or even to his own peeps?

It's his job to energize his voters - and to de-energize others' - with whatever it takes to make it happen.

It's NOT his job to provide honest analysis of polling data to anyone other than his own boss, and heck, maybe not even then.

He gets paid a lof of money for that kind of thing. Surely you already knew this?

They got lucky with 9/11 happening on their watch. That is all. Rove is no genius and never was.

Well, I hadn't heard it, but that transcript was hilarious. And Rove reminds me of someone out of Dr. Strangelove.

Sean,

The point of my post wasn't so much the Siegal intvw. as much as it was the real life snap shot that the friend of Rove's friend got. That snippet makes it clear that Rove had, indeed, spun himself and not just the public.

Christians and Republicans choosing to believe comforting fantasies despite lacking or contrary evidence? Shocking!

I remember being chilled by that NPR interview. The transcript doesn't do it justice, failing to encompass the utter condescension and dismissive-ness of his voice.

It made me believe the fix was in. Hell, it might have been. With this big of a wave, even the Republican Electoral Death Star couldn't hold.

Right about now Rove probably could use a long session with Mike Jones.

Matthew, I've been calling this lot a bunch of grifters for quite some time.
Rove may have stumbled, but they, the Cheney/Bush crowd, will mostly be getting away with a hideously lucrative scam. Despite winning, the Dems are left with the mucking out of the stalls...for decades to come.

Rove never was good at math, only at lying.

Of course Rove was going to lie about the poll results?

What else was he going to do? Publicly redict absolute, total defeat, thus ensuring that Republican voters would stay home?

Better to lie through one's teeth and hope for a miracle.

Rove is an asshat. The biggest asshat of all time.

Gosh ... the Repugs got their signals mixed for once? Huh.

Someone who cares should send Karl a nice fruitcake baked in 2000.