Nonetheless, myth or no, "Rove is the greatest political mind of his generation and probably of any generation," infused with (you gotta love this stuff) "lofty goals," blathers Fred Barnes, nutjob editor of the nutjob Weekly Standard (here via Yahoo! News). It was Rove, Barnes enthuses, who got Bush to run as "a different kind of Republican" in 2000 (different from Gingrich and DeLay, he helpfully explains) and devised a brilliant strategy to win in 2004 by creating "an army of several million enthusiastic volunteers" (the only kind of army most of them will ever see) to turn out Republican votes (or at least ballots) and give Commander Guy a second term.
Why, Barnes says, if it hadn't been for that pesky Iraq thing (a war that was "going poorly" in '04, he explains) we'd probably all be happy, cozy Rs by now, and all because Rove influenced the party in "ways that allowed it to grow."
That ain't a myth, Dude, that's a horror story.
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