Rove and Barbour buy one for Thad, but won't buy the White House for JEB!

If you were a movie producer and sent a request to "central casting" for a paunchy stereotype of a corrupted pay-to-pay southern reactionary politician turned lobbyist and plutocrat defender, they would send you back PR stills of Haley Barbour, the kingfish of Mississippi.  Barbour and Rove managed yesterday to buy back the Senate seat of their doddering crony, Thad Cochran, against a muscular threat from Dorian Gray tea party challenger Chris McDaniel. Rove did it the old fashioned Rove way, with PAC money and dirty tricks.  Rovian terror robo-calls to African-American Democratic voters telling them how much McDaniel hated black people, loved the Confederacy, and how much the tea party "disrespected" President Obama may have provided the margin of victory for Cochran in a rather close race.

The perverted, evil irony of Karl Rove shadow groups motivating Democrats to vote for a Bush Republican with bromides about how much the Rove-created tea party "disrespects" Obama is sickeningly laughable.  Disrespecting him like every Bush Republican does?  Like the Queen of Bush Republicans, Mitch McConnell does?  The same Mitch McConnell who said immediately after Obama was elected in 2008 he would work to make him a one term president?

A God that understands the failings of honest sinners more than moralistic hucksters, and that stands apart from and above the wickedness and mendacity of contemporary American partisan politics must be rejoicing in Heaven at the predicament of Karl Rove's Republican Party these days. Just always one primary election away from self-immolation due to a generation of cynical and fraudulent wedge politics that has finally driven its put-upon base of disrespected voters to a realization of the truth:  that no one in the Party of Bush is looking out for them.

Rove is running out of options, and running short of available elections he can rig and buy.  The 2016 Presidential general election with JEB! as his standard bearer will be his political Waterloo.