Will Rove undo Bush's legacy?

After having successfully orchestrated Bush's election to Governor first and then President, will Rove be responsible for tainting the man's legacy?

Or maybe even for bringing down the administration he so valiantly fought to create?

And if that sweet vision were to become reality, how will the Republican party be affected by the fall?

This article, by Thomas Pauken, a Republican, is very enlightening. This is the crucial passage:

If there is any truth to these charges, the lid will blow off Washington — and the Bush administration will be history.

Richard Nixon must have spent much of his life after the presidency wondering what went wrong — why such an insignificant matter in the grand scheme of things ended his career. I suspect he never fully appreciated how the cultivation of an environment in which the ends justifies the means infected those associated with his administration.

In my judgment, George W. Bush's White House has much more in common with the Nixon administration than with his father's. The same mind-set of the ends justifying the means is at work here, and it may have caught up with Rove and others in the Plame Affair.

We'll see what Fitzgerald has uncovered.