Frank Rich on "the Dark Heart of Rovian Republicanism"  What
you've been missing since Times Select took away free access to
Frank Rich's liberal rants.  Times Watch hasn't dealt with arts
editor-liberal columnist Frank Rich in a while (especially since
the Times Select pay to read program walled him and other
columnists out of view).  Folks, you haven't been missing a
thing. Rich's anti-Republican frippery simply lights on
different targets each week. This week it's retiring Bush
advisor Karl Rove ("He Got Out While the Getting Was Good").
Rich introduced the main villain, Rove, through the side
character ex-Virginia Sen. George Allen and his overblown
"macaca moment":   Rich concluded with an equally ridiculous
statement, quoting a writer for the New York Sun with a long-
held hostility toward social conservatism.  "Last weekend's Iowa
straw poll was a more somber but equally anachronistic
spectacle. Again, it's a young conservative commentator, Ryan
Sager, writing in The New York Sun, who put it best: 'The