Jay Bookman: It’s time for Karl Rove to float away in a balloon

... a good political strategist has to be willing to listen dispassionately to what the data tell him. He does not yell angrily at that data, like a distraught husband refusing to believe that his wife just left him. In that moment, Rove exposed himself as the petty figure that he is.

As Dorothy Gale, D-Kansas, famously put it, “Why, you’re not a wizard at all, you’re just a man! And you’re a very bad man for pretending to be a wizard.”

And after that, as I recall, the defrocked wizard floated away in a balloon, unable to steer a new direction because “I don’t know how it works!”

http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/11/09/its-time-for-karl-rove-to-float-away-in-a-balloon/