Digby: Where's Rover?

One of he things I always wondered about the Rove-as-genius myth was why Bush's adminstration was so lame if Rove was so great. It's true that Junior was very popular for a while after 9/11, but any president would have been. He was good at pretending he had won a mandate, but he never actually did it. He's a ruthless, slimy Republican operative, but no better than many other ruthless, slimy Republican operatives.