"The hallmarks of a Rove smear job are always the same: leak, lie, defame, obfuscate, and deny. He did it when he began a whisper campaign about Gov. Ann Richards' sexuality. He did it when he used surrogates in South Carolina to suggest that Sen. John McCain was mentally unstable and may have fathered a black child out of wedlock and he did it in the last election when he used the Swift Boat Veterans as a front group to proffer lies about John Kerry's time in Vietnam."...from some tales of earlier Rove sleeze from James Moore (BUSH'S BRAIN) at HufPo: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/jim-moore/the-knower-of-allknowing_4064.html