The Washington Post on Karl Rove

Is Karl Rove – the great Bush political operative – the Devil Incarnate or a Genius? (Maybe both!)

Here’s a very interesting Washingon Post article.  Midterm Vote May Define Rove’s Legacy – washingtonpost.com

"Karl is an absolute figure of fascination," said Walter Isaacson, president of the Aspen Institute, which hosted Rove at its annual "Ideas Festival" this summer. "What stuns people who don’t know him is how personally charming he is, especially people who consider him the devil or a strange genius."

Isaacson said Rove not only answered questions for close to 90 minutes before a packed auditorium but also bantered for hours afterward with the high-powered attendees from the worlds of policy, politics and big business. For 40 minutes, he said, Rove engaged in the fine points of stem cell research with Silicon Valley venture capitalist John Doerr. "It always astonishes me that he knows more details about policy than anyone else — that’s the source of his strength," said Isaacson, who has also dealt with Rove extensively on issues of Louisiana reconstruction.