Reply #17: Let's not miss the big picture here. Rove has an untrustworthy characater [View All]

[Bucky]

The psychological subtext here is that Rove is not someone who you can trust in the trenches. I may not like Mr. Bush or Mr. Cheney, but when the food fight comes, you're alone in the cafeteria, and the egg salad starts flying, you know which direction they'll be tossing their sack lunches (straight at your face, while calling you "anti-food").

Rove's "gray eminance" persona is such, that when things go wrong their sick little Greek chorus decides that he must have switches sides. He's sneaky and dirty and schemey; he's Gholum to Bush's Frodo, Iago to Bush's Othello, Eddie Haskel to Bush's June Cleaver. In the end, they know he's too smart for their own good, that he's never further than a phone call to Bob Novak away from selling down river all that he professes to love.