I read the Michael Gerson op-ed piece in the Post this week that bb posted above and there are some good points in it...

But what I find so incongruent is Rove's thoughts on attracting minorites to the party... I'm not sure how he thought he could pull that off with a constant PR barage aimed at keeping his angry white base riled up???

No, this is one reason why he failed... Polls tell us that the American people are fed up with "politics" and, sure, it can be argued that the Dems have had their hand in this but in the big scheme of things I think the American people are just fed up with the Rove style of politics... I mean, can't there be some level of civility witout trying tp paint folks you don't agree with as unpatriotic??? That was the beginning of the end for Rove and Bush... People saw thru this crap as being just that: crap!!!

And, yeah, if Rove's goal was to create this Republican dynesty for decades to come, he failed miserable and has left the Republican Party worse off than it has been in a long, long time...

Bobert