Just so it’s clear, my post wasn’t anti-Perry, (alhough I think it’s better for us and for Texas if Perry stays in Texas,) it was all out against rove. He is a rollins clone and a dirty player. Anyone who trusts him is going to get whacked one way or another. He’s a control freak on top of that and wants to stay in control regardless of the effect on his candidate or on the candidate’s constituency. That was never more clear than in the Bush white House where the constituency was the entire country.
There is an ole saying, "A conservative is concerned with policy, a republican, with power." Karl Rove is a republican. He is a "win at all costs" type, and will place pragmatism over principle any day of the week, and twice on sunday. He is from the school of "triangulation" and supports moderates, right of center, left of center, and anything in between.
That said, the man has made alot of enemies, on both the right and the left, it seems that to know Mr. Rove, is to eventually grow issue with him (one former client was actually sued by him), and most relationships with him go bitter eventually.