Rove is not a conservative. He has spent his entire life in politics, never having a real job. He is a Republican only because that is where he was able to get his first and later political jobs.
Having risen to the top of the Republican political hierarchy, he has contempt for the little people, the “country people”, who actually make up America. To him they are amorphous little dots that he thinks he can cleverly move and manipulate to vote ballots for his candidates. He has no clue on how to deal with a real grass roots consensus that is outside his and the elitists’ control. He sees no cushy job for himself in a Republican Party with O’Donnells, Angles, Millers, Palladino’s in charge.
Good.
Yup ..
Most politicians are not driven by ideology, whether they are conservative or liberal is purely by chance, and the circumstances they feel gives them the best shot to win, most don’t have any core beliefs, other than power.
Bingo!