Dear Mr. Rove,

    I am writing to thank you.  I owe you a deep debt of gratitude.  In a mere six months, there is an outstanding possibility that a black man or a woman will be voted into the highest office in the land for the first time.  And in part, we have you to thank for that.  

    I believe that it is part because of the enormous dissatisfaction with the current administration and Republican party in general that the Democrats were able to have two history-making candidates as our front-runners.  You have been credited with being "Bush's brain," and "the architect" of the administration and Bush brand.  You did a bang-up job.  You recently wrote:

Some brand damage remains, as does the downward pull of the president's approval ratings.

Indeed it does.  Thanks to you, the Republican brand invokes images of corruption, lies, fear-mongering, and incompetence.  So successful were you in creating that brand, it, and with it, your legacy, is likely to outlast the coming elections and perhaps, many years beyond.


I can only imagine what it will feel like to see such a Democrat sworn in in January, making history simply by standing on that stage.  It will be a shining moment in our country's story, a moment that will forever change America.  

No doubt, the Democrats will have to work for it.  But thanks to you, Americans are so yearning for change, that they are literally taking to the streets in support of a new way.  I'm sure that might be slightly terrifying to a man such as yourself, who wins elections by suppressing others through fear and terror.  But take heart.  Next January, as either President Obama or President Clinton takes the stage to speak to America, it will be a day that will live forever.  A day that will represent all that is at the core of the American spirit, the ideals laid out when this country was founded over two hundred years ago.  And in the years to come, you can look back and know that you played a part in that.  

So with those thoughts, I leave you with one final thank you:
Heckuva job.