So much for the House that Rove Built:

[rodeodance]

http://slate.msn.com/id/2128212/#GlueFactory

> Post-Rovism
> Whatever is left of the House that Rove Built, the GOP needs a new architecture.
> By Bruce Reed
> Updated Thursday, Oct. 20, 2005, at 12:11 PM PT

>

......So much for the House that Rove Built: The roof leaks, the foundation is collapsing, and the timbers are rotten with termites. When Slate's Witold Rybczynski wrote that "individuals and institutions usually turn to architecture at moments of decline," Karl Rove must have been the kind of architect he had in mind.

> The Trouble with Rovists: The current mess does not stem from a run of bad luck—it's by design. Rove sold his party a product that was built to fail. Rovism has three inherent design flaws:
>
> 1. Base Worship: The central flaw of this presidency is that from the beginning, Bush and Rove have been willing to pay any price to avoid what they mistakenly consider the central flaw of the first Bush presidency—not keeping conservatives happy.
>
> As a matter of policy, George W. Bush's constant right turns have consistently steered the country into the ditch. But they've turned out to be bad politics as well. Bush's two biggest assets in the 2000 campaign were compassionate conservatism and his pledge to change the tone in Washington. In office, both were instant casualties of the let-the-base-govern logic of Rovism........

[Cha]

1. Yeah, and how much of this "house"

did you try to emulate, bruce reed?

[Verve]

2. That little piggy built his house of straw. n/t

[opihimoimoi]

3. The GOP needs to get a LIFE...it is them that put Rove/Bush into power

It is the GOP that is a SIN/SPOT/BLOT/POX on America

It is the GOP who helped Bush steal the damn thing in 2000.

Conservatism is a fucking BAD IDEA and should not have been brought to power in the first place....

Just look at the damage under these guys....and don't let them spin you different...it sucks...

They got the Toads in and now they wanna make themselves clean? Gimme a break.

Vote BLUE...Americas only hope...the GOP is hopeless

[Larkspur]

4. It wasn't pleasing their base that did them in, it was the CRONYISM,

stupid!

Putting incompetent people -- Michael Brown -- in positions where competence and experience are needed is a lethal combination.

[roseBudd]

5. Rove surely knows they need Roe v. Wade to maintain power w/o Roe

they do not have millions of automatic prolife votes. Without Roe the prolifers could stay home or vote their economic self interest.