The "Architect" Rove got G.W. elected and within those eight years he became one of the most contentious and feared people in politics. He was despised by the left and loved by the right and is probably the reason why Libby got hit so hard by Fitzgerald using a D.C. jury. The left wanted to get Rove out of the picture and went on a massive fishing expedition looking for information that they already had. Rove should know how Cruz feels because he was hated just as much during that period. At that time Rove was virtually unchallenged because Bush rode on the coattails of Ronald Reagan who people loved but the left contended that Reagan was for the "rich guy" and that the little people were irrelevant. Hence the term "compassionate conservative" was created as a foolish misnomer that had more to do with maintaining popularity than either compassion or conservatism. Rove, like my original computer program, is outdated. Furthermore Rove like the Bushes has been unmasked. He and the Bush family had nothing to do with conservatism and the only connection the Bush's had with the Reagan philosophy was the VP slot Reagan gave to the senior Bush. I always said that Reagan made two very big mistakes. The first was that he did not dismantle the Department of Education. Had he done so at the time we might not have the ACA today . Second is that he choose the wrong VP. Once again, had he done otherwise, we might not have the ACA. I will never forget the exclamation that Ronald Reagan's domestic spending agenda was called "voodoo economics". That said a lot and we know who said it.

Karl Rove was on the Greta Van Susteren Show last night using his old white board tactics to show why it would be wrong to try and defund the ACA in the House and how Cruz will fail in the Senate using a filibuster approach. He was forced to recognize and admit that Cruz is part of his (Rove's) problem (he is influencing the House) and Greta emphasized that America wants no more of the same worn out and overplayed tactics. Rove maintains this shutdown will be different than the one in 1995 and will be far worse because Obama wants to make it such. Yes, it will be but I clearly saw in Karl Rove a timidity and sense that reminded be of the one of the Japanese commanders just before the Battle of Midway when he exclaimed that he thought we that Japan had awakened a sleeping giant. Does Mr. Rove remember 2010? The people still do and they now know what fiscal conservatism is all about. Rove is using a very outdated computer model. Furthermore, it now does the wrong thing.

He is wrongly respected by journalists and RINO's. His track record of predicting election and policy outcomes is becoming bad. Afterall, he predicted Romney would win . . .