Here's a question I haven't seen asked....Even if Rove were "fired", what would it accomplish except for a temporary black eye for W? Do the RATs really think that the GOP would not continue to seek out Rove's political advice and strategies? I'm sure even the White House would continue to rely on his expertise, and nobody but political insideres would ever know or care.
Democrats are worked up over getting rid of Rove because it plays into one of their cherished delusions, which is what they have these days instead of plans, ideas or policies. They spent the Clinton years training themselves to swallow any falsehood, no matter how transparent, and the bile and insanity of the 2000 election combined with that to unhinge them from reality entirely. Consider what today's Democrats, at least many of the loudest, actually believe:
* The only reason they're out of power is because the evil wizard Valdemort Rove magically hoodwinks the public into voting for Republicans, against their own interests.
* They lose because "their message can't get out," due to the fact that all the media outlets are so slanted in favor of conservatives.
* Bush is an idiot and Gore and Kerry were geniuses, despite the fact that Bush has a Yale degree and a Harvard MBA, while Gore and Kerry have far less impressive academic and business credentials.
* The greatest threat facing America today is not Osama bin Laden but Bush, who was probably really behind that 9/11 thing that Americans would prefer their leaders forget about so they can get back to talking about universal health care.
* If we just hated ourselves more and acted weaker, maybe the terrorists would start to love and respect us and not attack us anymore.
* Al Franken is funny. In fact, doggone it, people like him so much that if you put him on the radio, they'd immediately switch off all those hateful rightwingers like Rush Limbaugh and listen to Al, Garofalo and a lot of other shrill leftwing nutjobs 24 hours a day.
I could go on and on, but you get the point. They are living in such a dream world, they have build Rove up into a giant fire-breathing dragon and think that if they slay him, the Republicans will be vanquished, and they'll marry Princess Leia and rule the galaxy forever and ever. So they have spun this microscopically-less-than-nothing, would-be "scandal" up into the biggest conspiracy theory since the JKF assassination. These people don't need political power, they need Prozac.