From Atrios:

“At this point, I think we need to not ‘fail miserably.’ I’d like that to be a resounding success, with a liberal democracy, complete with gay marriage and all, flourishing in Iraq, but the plutocratic colony we’re in the process of establishing to the benefit of our war profiteers isn’t exactly moving in that direction. The truth is, as Big Media Matt points out, the Bush administration is in the process of ‘cutting and running’ as much or more as any of the Dem candidates (even Kucinich!) are suggesting. I have a hard time believing that the promises of troop reduction will ever really materialize, but in the end it’ll be a war between Rove and the Neocons. Normally I’d put my money on Rove, but I’m not sure in this case.”

I love how succinctly he puts the dysadministration dilemma — Rove vs. the Neocons. This would imply, however, that Rove’s expertise at selling presidential Bu**sh** is based on less rabid ideological grounds than the Perles, Wolfowitzs, etc. What exactly are Rove’s conservative bona fides?