His political commentaries made the 2006 election worth following
To those of us who’ve followed Frank Rich’s political essays and postings, the election results offered further evidence of his acuity. Frank has been spot on. It would be a disservice to term him the “Karl Rove” of the Left (or the media). But if the moniker could be considered benign, then I would certainly apply it to Frank — that is to say, Frank’s reading of the culture has been at least as sharp as that of Rove’s during the latter’s early reign as President Bush’s guru-in-residence.
Of course, Rove went horribly wrong. It’s unlikely that Frank, with his extraordinary intellectual tendrils, will ever miss the mark by so much. For this reader, at least, the 2006 election was made ever so much more interesting through Frank’s commentaries.