Yeah...Rove help Bush push for Amnesty.....Rove let Bush enemies attacks against him go unanswered....Rove is a RINO, even though he help the two term election wins, he help to destroy the Republican party that was less conservatives than when he came on the scene nationally in 2000.
Rove also won big in the off-term election in 2002 which might have had more to do with 9/11 than Rove. Regardless, I dispute the statement that the Republican party is less conservative now than in 2000. Who was the Conservative champion in 2000? Alan Keyes? Gary Bauer? They mattered no more or no less than they do now.