Guilty!!

The Raw Story prints a Rovian admission of guilt. Hear me out. We know that a typical Rove judo technique is to take a weakness or fault or nefarious activity of the right, as well as Democratic criticisms of that activity, and completely flip the tables. In this case, the left criticized the ruffian tactics of the right during the elections, and the various dirty-election techniques of the Republicans. In Rove fashion, delete the political position and party terms - "right," "left," Republican, Democrat - and replace them with their political opposite. In this way, he thinks, he gains the upper hand by reframing the problem and leaves the Democrats to resort to the playground language of "I'm not It. You're It!"

The technique is so typical and transparent at this point, that we can take it as an admission of guilt. If Rove claims one thing, the opposite is probably true.

"I want to thank you for your work on clean elections," Rove said. "I know a lot of you spent time in the 2004 election, the 2002, election, the 2000 election in your communities or in strange counties in Florida, helping make it certain that we had the fair and legitimate outcome of the election."

Rove then suggested that some elections in America were similiar to third world dictatorships.

"We have, as you know, an enormous and growing problem with elections in certain parts of America today," Rove said. "We are, in some parts of the country, I'm afraid to say, beginning to look like we have elections like those run in countries where they guys in charge are, you know, colonels in mirrored sunglasses. I mean, it's a real problem, and I appreciate that all that you're doing in those hot spots around the country to ensure that the ballot -- the integrity of the ballot is protected, because it's important to our democracy."