He really is that scary

A little snip from Sidney Blumenthal's article in Salon on the opening of the Clinton library:

Offstage, beforehand, Rove and Bush had had their library tours. According to two eyewitnesses, Rove had shown keen interest in everything he saw, and asked questions, including about costs, obviously thinking about a future Bush library and legacy. "You're not such a scary guy," joked his tour guide. "Yes, I am," Rove replied. Walking away, he muttered deliberately and loudly, "I change Constitutions, I put churches in schools ..." Thus he identified himself as more than the ruthless campaign tactician -- as the invisible hand of power, pervasive and expansive, designing to alter the fundamental American compact.

The unmitigated naivete of many Americans who voted for Bush never ceases to amaze me. Kerry wasn't perfect, just slightly better, and I didn't vote for him anyway. But no one can argue that his campaign and administration would have been run by a man as terrifying as Karl Rove. Not only is Karl Rove the man scary, mostly I think because he truly believes the awful things he says, Karl Rove's project is scary. He wants nothing less than the overthrow of the ideals upon which this country was founded, and he is closer than ever to achieving that overthrow. Scariest of all, his success is due to the fact that he has managed to convince the uneducated naive populace that his, and therefore GWB's, project is actually a return to America's foundational values when nothing could be further from the truth.