Just a pathetic criminal

The media really needs to get over their obsession with Karl Rove. Their agenda is so transparent. He isn’t a genius. He’s a criminal who knows how to work a friendly, even cooperative media, as is evidenced by these fawning articles.

Granted he has worked harder and dirtier and has pushed the bounds and often gone past the bounds of what is legal; because in a Machiavellian way, he knows it is all right since he is right and working for a higher cause, as were Nixon and Ollie North and countless others. Sooner or later they are all revealed as the criminals that they are, until they're pardoned by the next Republican administration.

But what’s really sad is the Democrats who respect and admire his so-called intelligence and ability. They need to stop playing into the media and administration talking points. I’m sure the quotes in these articles are carefully selected, but still they need to shut up and stop talking like such morons.

This is how he is effective, but buying votes with federal money is unethical at the least and probably criminal. From the LA Times:

But the most significant element of Rove's effort to help four-term Rep. Thomas M. Reynolds keep his job may have occurred behind closed doors, when the White House strategist met with a federal disaster relief official contemplating how to respond to the storm. Four days later, Reynolds announced that President Bush would authorize millions of dollars in federal disaster aid for the area.

But this is what the article should be about: Rove's lies, his manipulating the system and his criminal conduct. But really that would be too much to expect from the conservative media only concerned with maintaning the conservative Republican power base.