Good ridance evil personified

Am I the only one thinking the departure of the most evil influence in world politics has been dramatically understated?

Shouldn't there be parties in the streets all over the so-called free world? Shouldn't we be greeting the news with flowers and song?

Karl Rove was the inventer of dirty tricks politics. Dubya even called him "the Architect" (in all that that implies).

Let's not forget this is the man who got Dubya into politics. Some of his more famous dirty tricks include:
* massive phone arounds of black residences telling them the election was on a different day
* leaked a false story that John McCain had fathered a black daughter out of wedlock (McCain has an adopted Bangladeshi daughter) in the 2000 primaries. This was just one of the false stories he was spreading about McCain at the time. And McCain is in his own party.
* volunteered for a Democrat, then distributed 1000 invitations to a campaign fundraiser around Chicago's red light district promising "free beer, free food, girls and a good time for nothing"
* push-polling: arranging phone calls from supposed pollsters to Democrat voters asking questions such as "Would you be more or less likely to vote for [female candidate] if you knew her staff was dominated by lesbians?

And did he or didn't he leak Valerie Plame's name (an undercover CIA agent whose diplomat husband was a vocal opponent of the Iraq war) to Washington journalists? There's little doubt.

You can read much more about the father of dirty tricks at karlrovesucks.com

Someone whose political opinion I greatly respect once said, "The Democrats' biggest problem is that they don't have a Karl Rove."

Call me Pollyanna, but thank goodness, I say. I still believe there can be some good in politics.