In 1992 he told us the Republicans would never win a majority in Congress and that therefore we should support corrupt Democrat Al-the-pal Dixon for US Senate. The Republican candidate was purposely put up to take a dive.
The anti-corruption people of 1992 (including but not limited to 3rd party voters and the newly registered ChristianCoalition types) were outraged, Declared Democrat in the primary and voted for Carole Mosley Braun. The hope was that an anti-corruption candidate would emerge in 6 years. Peter Fitzgerald, who won for St Senate in 1992, ran an anti-corruption campaign in 1998 and won thanks to the support of the building trades unions working the ground game for him. Michel, LaHood, Shimkus, Hastert, Kjelander (Rove's roommate), the corruption wing opposed Fitzgerald.
Then, in 2004, Fitzgerald didn’t run again. Jack Ryan became the nominee and then had to drop out due to a sex scandal. That gave us Senator Obama and, well, you know how it went from there.