Democrats only hope...

George W. Bush wins twice and the Republicans increase their congressional strength every election year. With terrorists on the ropes and U.S. economic news getting better every day, the Democrats only have one hope to hang their hats on: that somehow, somewhere there is a scandal brewing that's juicy enough to taint the Bush Presidency.

They'll beat the drum over and over in the hopes that if they repeat a charge enough times and with the right intensity, that Joe six-pack will absorb this subliminal message: Bush bad, Republicans bad.

To this day, the only knock they have on a successful Reagan Presidency is the Iran-Contra situation which they invariably like to hold up as some kind of trophy - as if this one episode somehow offsets the achievements of pulling the U.S out of its Carter-induced malaise, creating a robust economy and bringing the Soviets to their knees.

But as Rich Galen points out, Democrats have a particular reason to fear Rove and the effect he is having on the landscape of national politics.

The danger which Karl Rove poses to the Democratic Party has nothing to do with which reporters told him the name of Joe Wilson's wife. It has everything to do with their utter terror of remaining the minority party in America for decades to come.

Consider how Rove helped turn Texas, one of the most Democrat-controlled States as of 1977, into one that is - for all intents and purposes - a one party State held by the GOP.

Now consider how much the once-dominant Democrats have lost in the last five years - the Presidency, State Houses, State Legislatures and a presence in the U.S. Congress that - bucking historical trends - has gotten smaller and smaller. And Democrats know only too well who deserves much of the credit.

In that context you understand the anger and frustration they have aimed at Karl Rove - the "architect". Message to Dems: Be afraid....be very afraid.

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