Pretend you’re an assignment editor at the Wall Street Journal's D.C. bureau and you want to run (yet another) profile on Karl Rove. How would you play the story on page A4 today? Keep in mind that Rove is Bush's 'architech' and that Bush's job approval rating is hovering in the 30's, that Rove's fingerprints were all over this year's Terri Schiavo fiasco, as well as the dead-and-buried Social Security reform campaign, that he's having trouble attracting serious GOP candidates for 2006 races, that the White House has just made, in purely political terms, perhaps the most costly Supreme Court nomination in 40 years, and that Rove himself may soon be indicted on criminal charges. How do you play the story? How else, Rove-as-political-genius , of course.
Journal readers learn Rove is a "voracious reader," who loves " mastering policy details" and can recite "a summary of two centuries of federal employee benefit history."
It's nice to know some things inside the Beltway never change.
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