That Karl Rove

What a trickster he is. Oh boy. But seriously, his intellect/slyness never ceases to amaze me. Check this out, oddly reported by Rush & Molloy from the NY Daily News:

As Rudy begins to distance himself from the ethically challenged, briefly nominated Homeland Security chief wanna-be Bernard Kerik, some right-wing hardliners claim White House strategist Karl Rove devised the Kerik debacle to hurt Giuliani's presidential chances in '08.

"Rove used Rudy and Kerik to tout Bush as the anti-terrorism candidate," says one Republican party player. "But Rudy is too socially liberal for the true-believers. So they let him shoot himself in the foot. Rove knew about Kerik's baggage - and that he could never be confirmed. But he went along with the nomination, betting that the heat would come down on Rudy, which it has."

If this is true, I will be thoroughly impressed. And kind of happy, too. Giuliani sold out on his principles when he backed Bush (Rudy lived with a fucking gay couple at one point, I mean come on). And now he's realizing that maybe the Bushies were only using him (which they were). Giuliani deserves everything he's got coming to him. That being said, I'd rather see him in the WH in '08 than Bush and Rove's pick: Jeb Bush.