I Have a Hunch There Will Be No More Karl Roves
Seldom, if ever, has a political consultant come along with both the power and effectiveness of Karl Rove. The man is a genius in coalition-building, that modern day making of whole boards from slivers.
Having said that, I think he’ll be the last rather than the first of a new breed, a sort of one-trick pony whose effectiveness is just too stultifying for any but the weakest of candidates. And, while we may have more than our share of weak candidates, it’s not often an admitted failing.
Ego at that stratospheric level doesn’t often allow much handling. It’s not in the nature of presidential candidates to give over their destiny to a strategist.
It's perhaps useful to remember that the Republican majority in Congress, the first in half a century, had nothing to do with Karl. Newt Gingrich engineered that palace coup with his disingenuous Contract With America, six short weeks before the mid-term 1994 elections.
Nor did Karl have a hand in building the K-Street Republican stranglehold over …