Karl Rove : (4) " If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself. It’s easy to point at me. I’m convenient. " - Karl Rove " The fallback position in politics is if you don’t know what you want to be about, and if you don’t know what your vision is, go at somebody else. " - Karl Rove " My parents, particularly my father, had been used by commentators, political journalists and political commentators, to attack me, and the collateral damage was the reputations of my father and my mother. " - Karl Rove " Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it’ll be because of the president. And if we lose, it’ll be because of me. " - Karl Rove