The charisma Notes (third in a soon to be abandoned series)

It's always funny to discover that ruthless people like Karl Rove are often simpleminded hero worshippers.
There Karl Rove was on the History Channel last night extolling the strenuous virtues of Teddy Roosevelt without so much as a wink at the audience.
The irony was thick in the air like incense.
It is said in hushed whispers down in DC that Rove has always idolized George Bush Jr. from the git-go. So it is none too far fetched to presume that Bush and Roosevelt are somehow happily conflated in the vasty reaches of the Rovian mind.
Of course it is hard to imagine George Bush Jr. charging up San Juan Hill bullets pinging around him...it's hard to imagine him even volunteering to charge up San Juan Hill happily or otherwise. One doubts George Bush has read as many books in his life as TR read in a single month of his cluttered Presidency.
Teddy had a vast reservoir of invective for easygoing trust fund babies like Bush Jr. he called them eunuchs, cowards, frauds, and a host of unprintable things. He held a special bitter contempt for ivy leaguers who declined to volunteer for combat duty in war-time.
But we live in debased times so it is a sad day for America when a sneaky shirker like George Bush is on the verge of being enrolled in the Presidential secular pantheon.
Bush is in the end Karl Rove's idea of a rough rider...and that speaks volumes about that malevolent vacuity of Karl's mind.
Maybe, the only charismatic spell Bush is required to weave is over Karl Rove and only Karl Rove...the whole charisma thing begins and ends there.
Think about that.
Of course, Karl embodies certain contradictions as well....he professes to idolize Senator Mark Hanna, President William B. McKinley's svengali like manager who was shoved aside forcibly when Teddy Roosevelt ascended to the Presidency.
Well...clearly reconciling harsh contradictions aren't a Rovian priority in any way. Which will make it all the sweeter when Rove gets his inevitable comeuppance. Like L. Sherman Adams and Don Regan, he WON'T see it coming.