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Rove’s Folly

The New York Times reported this weekend that Karl Rove’s American Crossroads will be mounting a new effort to engage in Republican primaries to weed out potential embarrassing losses like the ones suffered by Todd Akin in Missouri and Richard Murdoch in Indiana.

The choice candidates of the Republican establishment are not lacking in millions of dollars for negative ads – instead they lack a passionate following on the ground called to action by their beliefs. This is something Rove and his seven-figure donors cannot purchase.

Eric Erickson, founder of RedState.com and Rove's newly minted colleague at Fox News, summed up this feeling by sarcastically thanking the Svengali for making "it really easy now to figure out who the terrible candidates will be in 2014."

As least the admission from Rove that the conservative base is so far out of touch with the mainstream and reality that they make it impossible to win statewide office is quite gratifying.