But without a Rove indictment, the affair looks unlikely to mutate in the way the left hopes.
The most compelling answer, one worthy of a Carville or Rove, came not from a Washington Pundit but from a mere voter like us.
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In his first formal response to questions about Karl Rove's activities, White House Counsel Al Gonzales sent a letter to Rep. Henry Waxman, D-California, after the congressman sent Rove a letter seeking information about his stock holdings and his meetings with business executives.
At the same time as setting his own candidate on a winning course, Mr Rove led a team analysing the weakness of Mr Bush's opponents.
Rove volunteered to return back in July after Time magazine reporter Matt Cooper had testified to a conversation with Rove in July of 2003.
During the subsequent investigation, one of Mr Edgeworth's supporters leaked a tape to the Washington Post, on which Mr Rove and a colleague could be heard discussing modes of campaign espionage.
At a time of peace and prosperity and economic growth, Karl Rove managed a successful presidential campaign to upend the incumbent vice president - very impressive.
All of a sudden, Rove is not there anymore, and, lo and behold, Gonzales is free to resign.
Democratic Congressmen Jerrold Nadler of New York and Henry Waxman of California sent Rove a letter Thursday asking him to provide more information about his contacts with the Salvation Army.
It represents a realization by Rove -- the father of the "red state vs. blue state, " "play to the base" strategy -- that there is such a thing as too extreme.
The Bush administration has insisted that the firing of the attorneys was handled properly, but critics have charged the attorneys were forced out for political motives and, in one case, to allow a protege of Rove to take one of the posts.
Mr Kerry posed a different challenge, but the Rove team managed to label him a flip-flopping liberal with some success.
Does this mean that you intend to issue a subpoena to Karl Rove or perhaps others at the White House?
Former Bush adviser Karl Rove wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed last week hoping if not encouraging either or both to get in.
Karl Rove organized a Super PAC that has raised about thirty million dollars in the past several months for use in support of Republicans.
Libby's lawyers also repeatedly pushed the idea that the Bush White House had decided to sacrifice Libby in order to save Karl Rove, a key presidential adviser.
As Karl Rove, a Republican strategist, points out, only a small proportion of those who gave to Mr Obama in 2008 have done so again this time.
That same weekend, the Huffington Post later revealed, two hundred wealthy guests attended a nearby luncheon featuring a speech by Karl Rove, the architect of American Crossroads, the pro-Romney Super PAC.
Luskin said it was "foolish speculation" for CREW -- which serves as counsel to former ambassador Joe Wilson and his wife, Valerie Plame, in a private suit against Rove and other Bush officials -- to suggest that the gap in White House e-mail helped Rove avoid indictment in the CIA leak case.
But a lot of people had wondered whether Rove's fourth appearance here would be just a short one, one to straighten out a few things, maybe clear up just a couple of points.
He's been called "Bush's Brain" and "The Architect, " but in less than a month President Bush's closest political adviser, Karl Rove , will be bringing more than a decade of canny and at times contentious strategic planning to an end.
Ken Mehlman, the Chairman of the Republican National Committee, will not return for a second term next year and lots of fingers are pointing at White House political advisor Karl Rove, whose vision for a permanent Republican majority suffered this week.
It's no secret Rove is both a staunch Republican and a John McCain supporter.
Rove then received a letter from the Salvation Army and contacted the OMB, Bartlett said.
"This is the closest thing the party has ever had to a genuine draft, " Rove told TIME.
Cooper testified before the grand jury only after Rove gave him a waiver of their reporter-source confidentiality agreement.
Karl Rove's lawyer says he's been told by Patrick Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor, that Rove is not a target of the probe.
Haunted by the memories of George Bush senior's defeat in the face of a jobless recovery, Karl Rove and his ilk are desperate to get the economy moving again and the unemployment numbers down.
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