In the last campaign, Karl Rove decided that the way to beat Barack Obama was to turn him into some combination of Sportin' Life and Billy Strayhorn. (That attempting to both black-bait and gay-bait the opposition was something that should gag the average maggot never has meant much to Rove, as he has spent a career making ill higher forms of life than himself.) Of Obama, Rove opined, "...even if you never met him, you know this guy. He's the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone who passes by."

Well, that worked so well that Rove has decided to work the same noxious theme this time around, too..

You know, Barack Obama is a "celebrity" who really isn't interested in the hard work of governing — as was, apparently, the guy Rove put in the Oval Office.