Karl Rove Losing Influence

The more Americans see through people like Karl Rove and George W. Bush, the less the two are taken seriously. If Rove and Bush had known each other as kids, it's easy to imagine Karl Rove as the kid who would tell Bush what to say to adults so that they could get away with whatever nonsense they had in mind. Well, the adults in the country have finally caught on.

DemfromCT has a post on Daily Kos that discusses Karl Rove's waning influence:

Rove has always represented the sleazier side of politics, with under-the-table innuendo and targeted bigotry as valuable tools. Along with the waning of conservatism as a unified movement, any diminution of Rove-style Swift Boat politics would be a wonderful thing for Americans. The fact that his boss is disparaged in so many quarters (and that's no exaggeration - as the most polarizing President in modern history, who governed on a 50+1% straterery whenever possible, Bush brought this on himself) doesn't help Karl much these days. Who wants a 38% approval rating draped around one's shoulders? And who wants to sacrifice everything for a failed President? The good times in the GOP are over, and it's Republicans who know it best (they're more pessimistic about burns in montana than we are).

I'm a Democrat but I've been around long enough to know that we need two political parties. The irony is that it's the Republicans, in their efforts to set up a one-party country, that are no longer a political party in the useful sense we mean when we talk about what direction to take the country and how to handle our problems. Today's Republican leadership is just a political machine preying on people's fears and hopes while delivering most of its benefits to cronies and wealthy campaign contributors. It's a sad state of affairs.