Editorial: Missouri shouldn't let Karl Rove control its elections
Karl Rove is up to his old tricks.
In 1973, a young Mr. Rove conspired to steal the leadership of the national College Republicans. At the Tan-Tar-A Resort at the Lake of the Ozarks, Mr. Rove threw the election into such a quagmire — in part by questioning the voting qualifications of his opponents — that somebody else, in this case George H.W. Bush, had to choose the winner.
The elder Mr. Bush was then the chairman of the Republican National Committee. He chose Mr. Rove. The rest is ignominious history involving Mr. Bush's son, two wars and a nation in economic crisis.
That history leads us today to Todd Akin, where Mr. Rove is using the same script to fix another Missouri election.
The 217,430 Missouri GOP voters who decided on Aug. 7 that they wanted Mr. Akin to take on Democratic incumbent Claire McCaskill in a race for the U.S. Senate should be deeply offended by what Mr. Rove is trying to pull.
On Monday, following Mr. Akin's ridiculously stupid comments about "legitimate rape," Mr. Rove's billionaire-funded Crossroads GPS, a Super PAC that intends to spend millions of non-Missouri dollars to defeat Ms. McCaskill, said that it would take its money and spend it elsewhere if Mr. Akin didn't withdraw from the race.
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