The American Public can Hold Only One Adjective in its Mind at One Time. So, is Karl Rove A: Smart or B: Fat?

Clearly, the answer is B.

Oh, and one more thing: what, besides his obesity and frat-boy arrogance, makes Karl Rove so "special"?

Even the liberals are buying/have bought the line that he's a genius--evil incarnate, however--and can bend the laws of space and time to his whim. Hence, the defeated tone in which he is discussed in left circles.

But what has he ever done that's so brilliant? Take away the free pass he has been issued by the media up until now (and factor in the public's utter disinterest with knowing who the president's advisers are) and explain to me how he's so smart?

Look, his one "attribute", if you can call it that without heaving, is his utter lack of scruples. Being a totally soulless creep is truly rare, I grant you. But it isn't "smart" and it isn't necessarily "scary" either. It's moronic. And now, Rove's bete-noir--his own lack of principle--is biting him in the ass, hard. If not for a media machine that took it upon itself (it was NOT manipulated by Rove, et al, in other words) to keep Al Gore out of the White House, Bush/Rove and co. would never have gotten off the ground.

Look at the situation he's in and then tell me, with a straight face, that he's a fucking genius, that he's "played every hand perfectly", that he's still the master of spin. Go ahead. I dare you. When he's in jail, you can tell me how he's mastered the art of stamping license plates and how he got his cellmate elected head Trusty--as if the warden didn't exist.