Rove steered his candidate into a popular vote loss against one of the most pathetic candidates ever fielded by a major party.
4 years later, he steered the same candidate to a very modest victory against a man who had accused US troops of torture during Vietnam, and who was an excruciatingly obvious elitist snob.
Forgive me if I’m underwhelmed by his political acuity - particularly since the GOP followed his approach in LOSING in 2008.
Rove doesn’t carry the blame alone. The Media gave Obama a complete pass along with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of cheerleading. Then the American people voted for a guy who is a Crook County Democrat appointed to run for IL State Senator, a position only a “YES” man can fulfill.
I warned everyone I know about how Obama is. They wanted change.
At what point to we simply admit the people were willingly fooled and move on to victory?
Rove got a less than inspiring candidate who had a problem speaking English like an educated man elected in a time of an economic boom.
He went on to get the same guy elected who was the face of a deteriorating war in Iraq and against a very hostile media
In 2006 Iraq had drained a lot of support for the Repubs and in 2008 the Repubs had a terrible candidate standing for office.