Actually, I think he's been undervilified. Anyone whose stated goal it is to create an "enduring republican majority" (as scary a phrase no matter which party you happen to insert, and unfortunately one I've heard several times since this jackass had to call more attention to himself) is in the business of damaging democracy. He (and those like him, on both sides of the political equation) attempt to solidify what should be a fluid system, intentionally clogging the nation's collective aorta.
These people are not only literally the power brokers of the nation, but they've sold out to the highest bidder and are in fact using their powers for evil instead of good, no matter which party or parties happen to be buying the product. In 2000, the republicans had the house and the senate and needed the presidency, so they tapped Rove. He directed them where to go, what to say, and who to schmooze to win. It of course never mattered what promises they were making or whose ideologies they were pretending to adopt to get them there, the goal was the presidency. By the time 2004 rolled around, we weren't just dealing with an incumbent candidate, we were dealing with incumbent issues. An almost entirely different set of issues won the election, largely because the administration (with plenty of help from Rove) worked to create both domestic and international circumstances that would keep it in power.
Doesn't this seem, even just on the surface, to subvert the will of the people? Aren't there scores of issues affecting the average American that simply don't get paid attention to because Karl Rove or some other political consultant has already decided that paying lip-service to other issues will win the election, even if they're never mentioned after the inauguration speech?
Forget your party allegiances for a moment and take a look at what this does to the structure of our government and our socioeconomic agility as a nation. This isn't a system of government, this is a system of marketing. This isn't democracy, or even a democractic republic: it's a sortof hybrid republicapitalist ego-frenzy.
I'm experiencing total vocabulary failure here, so I have to depart. But I'll leave you with an old thread for shits and giggles first:
http://www.i-mockery.com/forum/showthread.php?p=266578.
And shit, I forgot I don't post here anymore.