Bush and Rove Blew the Election on Purpose?

This would be hilarious, if it wasn't so sad, from Editor & Publisher:

He might have been kidding, but the more you read and think about it, the more it provides a plausible explanation for the wholesale White House bungling in the closing weeks of this year’s campaign: Bush and Rove blew the midterms on purpose. How else to accept that the normally hapless Democrats not only won, but as the president put it, “thumped”?Okay, even reporter/blogger Will Bunch of The Philadelphia Daily News, who concocted the idea -- likening it to “The Producers” plot to engineer a flop -- revealed that he had to put on his tin-foil hat first. I admit, I still don’t believe it one bit.

Why blow the election? Go to Bunch’s blog for the full explanation, but it largely boils down to Iraq -- and the opportunity to make this a bipartisan problem as the catastrophe worsens in the months ahead.

Actually this may not be all that far-fetched. The Dems have been talking a good talk that they could fight the War on Terror better than Republicans. Now its put up or shut up. Will they run crying to Bush when a disaster happens on their watch? It will be harder to point fingers if they dismantle the Patriot Act and the NSA Wiretapping.

Hat tip to James Taranto.