I don’t think very many on the left ‘misjudged’ Rove’s character anymore than they ‘misjudged’ Ken Starr’s.
MSM and popular culture encourage the craziest disconnects. Karl Rove is a bottom-feeding spawn of the devil but James Carville is just a colorful Cajun.
The left hates these guys passionately. It’s obvious they’ve misjudged them. The reason the MSM and pop culture string-pullers encourage the notion that Rove is a scheming devil is because they think he’s a scheming devil.