With all due respect again to Governor...been a governor for three years...able but undistinguished," Rove said. "I don't think people could really name a big, important thing that...done...was mayor of the 105th largest city in America.

Oops, that was Rove addressing speculation that Obama might select Tim Kaine, Governor of Virginia, as Obama's running mate. (Rove on Face the Nation August 10th).

Rove went on to say

"I think he's going to make an intensely political choice, not a governing choice," Rove said. "He's going to view this through the prism of a candidate, not through the prism of president; that is to say, he's going to pick somebody that he thinks will on the margin help him in a state like Indiana or Missouri or Virginia. He's not going to be thinking big and broad about the responsibilities of president."