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By E. J. Dionne | Tuesday, August 14, 2007 | The Boston Globe

Karl Rove “…may have been too partisan and too ideologically committed to build an enduring partisan majority. His strategy of polarization called forth enormous feats of organizing by Bush’s opponents. In mobilizing Bush’s own base, Rove also mobilized an alternative coalition fed up with the politics of the right. In giving Bush’s enemies no quarter, Rove left behind an angry ‘mob’ — his word from yesterday’s Wall Street Journal interview — ready to strike when the opportunity presented itself, as it inevitably did.”…BS

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