Karl Rove has enjoyed a great reputation as a political strategist. One has to assign some adjective to the achievement of getting someone named George W. Bush elected as President!!
The question that will assess his ultimate success is his own benchmark: did the Republican Party obtain a revolution by achieving a major realignment of politics to ensure that their party will maintain domination for a generation.
Independent of my bias that anyone who manipulated the American public in such a gross fashion deserves little praise, three commentators cite reasons for his ultimate failure.
In the current Atlantic Monthly, Karl Rove is noted as a failure for not seeing the negative impact of polarizing Congress. Except for the Education and pharmacy bills passed early in the first administration, none of the signature legislation were enacted. We are now left with such polarization that only time will determine its ultimate impact. Eugene Robinson
in a similar fashion cites his failure to realize that there was a need to work more effectively with Congress.
A friend of the Democrats, James Carville cites that the Republican party has lost an entire generation of former advocates. Rather than realigning the strength of the party, he has ultimately helped the Democrats to regain power.
Power tends to destroy its holders!
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