[cookcounty]

"And Rove appears to be a particularly important target for their smears."

This is very odd.

What does Rove have to do with the CIA or Iraq, or Foreign Policy, for that matter? It's funny how they all want desperately to take Rove down.

Maybe they believe their own propaganda, namely, that Bush's brain is inside Rove's skull.

[Wolfstar]

The reason is Rove's talent and skill serving as the President's political adviser. They believe he is the political genius behind the President's electoral success. So they think that if they can get rid of Rove, the President will not continue to enjoy electoral success. See, Bush is not supposed to be smart enough to get out of bed alone in the morning, let alone win elections. The Left used to pin the "genius behind the throne" thing on VP Cheney, but their efforts to get him through Enron and Halliburton failed. So now they are after Rove.