Karl Rove and the cartoon that never was

Here is the cartoon I began in hopes of a Kerry victory. There's not much to see, but the idea was that Rove would spin the results of the election as an informal poll of the people. The media, the people, and the democrats would all roll over and just let it happen. It turns out America is even less intelligent than I was going to portray them in the comic, they actually just went ahead and voted him in.

Karl Rove is now being hailed for his brilliant strategizing. In Bush's acceptance speech he thanked "The Architect, Karl Rove". After the 2000 coup Rove vowed to win the popular vote in 2004 to create the illusion of democracy and better pacify the public. It almost seems impossible that Ohio and Florida went to Bush. Did they go to Bush because of the untraceable black box voting machines? There's no way to ever find out, but thanks to their continuous efforts to manipulate people's fear of terror attacks, galvanize the anti-gay fundamentalist Christian movement, and somehow spin Bush's presidency into that of competent leadership 51% of voters drank the Kool-Aid.

Ron Suskind captured the mindset of our rulers in a recent article in the New York Times Magazine. After writing an article unfavorable of White House Communications Director Karen Hughes he was spoken to by who he only referred to as a "senior adviser" to Bush:

The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality – judiciously, as you will – we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.'