Rove = bin Laden

You have to love an article entitled "Karl Rove: America's Mullah" and has a subhead that reads "This election is about Rovism, and the outcome threatens to transform the U.S. into an ironfisted theocracy." The LA Times is frothing at the mouth like a rabid Akita and are pulling out all the low-down rhetoric they can:

Rove, however, is more than a political sharpie with a bulging bag of dirty tricks. His campaign shenanigans — past and future — go to the heart of what this election is about. Democrats will tell you it is a referendum on Bush's incompetence or on his extremist right-wing agenda. Republicans will tell you it's about conservatism versus liberalism or who can better protect us from terrorists. They are both wrong. This election is about Rovism — the insinuation of Rove's electoral tactics into the conduct of the presidency and the fabric of the government. It's not an overstatement to say that on Nov. 2, the fate of traditional American democracy will hang in the balance.Rovism is not simply a function of Rove the political conniver sitting in the counsels of power and making decisions, though he does. No recent presidency has put policy in the service of politics as has Bush's. Because tactics can change institutions, Rovism is much more. It is a philosophy and practice of governing that pervades the administration and even extends to the Republican-controlled Congress. As Robert Berdahl, chancellor of UC Berkeley, has said of Bush's foreign policy, a subset of Rovism, it constitutes a fundamental change in "the fabric of constitutional government as we have known it in this country."Rovism begins, as one might suspect from the most merciless of political consiglieres, with Machiavelli's rule of force: "A prince is respected when he is either a true friend or a downright enemy." No administration since Warren Harding's has rewarded its friends so lavishly, and none has been as willing to bully anyone who strays from its message. There is no dissent in the Rove White House without reprisal.

Emphasis mine. According to this idiot, if Bush is elected, the entire American democratic system is going to be replaced by a theocratic dictatorship. The author of this drivel is completely unhinged.

The idea of the United States as an ironfisted theocracy is terrifying, and it should give everyone pause. This time, it's not about policy. This time, for the first time, it's about the nature of American government. We all have reason to be very, very afraid.

I can see Bush relegating all homosexuals and Atheists to North Dakota on November 3, can't you?