Rove was the guy who took what should have been a landslide against a moronic dilettante in 2004 and changed it to a near loss.
Rove had no strategy in 2004 when the Bush National Guard fiasco threatened to blow the race to war hero Kerry. It was Bush’s fellow pilots and the Swiftboaters and some bloggers that turned that mess around while Rove stood by clueless.
Romney was a good man and a good candidate. Unfortunately, he turned over his campaign to the RINO consultants and staff like Eric Fehrnstom, who canceled out all Romney’s gains with his comment “forget the primaries - come the general election we will do an Etch-a-Sketch on all our primary positions”.
A good candidate doesn’t need consultants.