Amazing to me, after Rove has taken part in treasonous/criminal behavior (they didn't get you for outing Plame, which we know you did, so now let's see about the Attorneys scandal, among other things) he won't just slink away but keeps opening his big, fat sebum-stained lips.

Rove is now denying that President Bush or he wanted to push for the Iraq Resolution before the 2002 election. That's right, the sociopath supposedly didn't want to "politicize the vote." Glad I had no liquid in my mouth when I read that.

So he's a liar. We know that. But not enough attention has been paid to the fact that he is not the "genius" he has so long been considered to be. But a vicious, polarizing, incompetent whose miscalculations and moral myopia not only cost his party numerous House, Senate and state legislative seats (not to mention governors' mansions and most likely the White House in 2008), but has destroyed his party's brand for most likely a generation.

So I got inspired and wrote a column about it for The Guardian. Here is an excerpt:

Yet, in the end, it may be Rove's guiding Bush into the most disastrous executive tenure since Nero or Bud Selig that really did in these Republicans. For moderate Republicans of the very sort that the party used to count on in suburban northern Virginia have been stating their displeasure at the ballot box over the party's hard-right positions on Iraq, torture, abortion rights and stem cell research recently. In fact, one of those moderate Republicans, a guy named Jim Webb - the former secretary of the navy under Ronald Reagan - switched parties and in 2006 was elected the new Democratic senator from Virginia.

As if all this weren't enough, Rove also was closely tied to Jack Abramoff (they even shared a secretary), whose bribery has landed numerous Republican congressman in hot water and has tarnished the reputation of the party across the land.

Go here for the whole thing.