ah, to be in the thick of it

For the Dems, taking advice from Karl Rove is like Israel taking advice on national security from Ahmadinejad. But Rove is a walking database of American political history and, as we need no reminding, a tactician of fearsome cunning. As such he is usually is worth listening to, once the layers of political self-interest are stripped away. This piece, on what the rival Democratic campaigns should do to get the result they want from a contested convention (should it come to that), bubbles over with his excitement at the prospect of the first real knife-fight at a convention for over twenty-five years. He sounds as if he wishes he could swap sides, if only for that week.