The RNC says that the “extreme left is attempting to define the modern Democrat[ic] party by rabid partisan attacks, character assassination and endless negativity.” Actually those last three phrases seem to describe Karl Rove!
It Appears That Karl Rove Is In Serious Trouble, by John W. Dean, who knows something of Presidential scandals.
Rove Leak is Just Part of Larger Scandal By Daniel Schorr, who covered that Presidential scandal Dean knows so well. (The Christian Science Monitor)