Rove as Rommel means...
From the Guardian leader today:
If the Guardian thinks there is 'some truth' in the idea of Rove as Rommel, that must mean the paper thinks of Bush as Hitler.
At times following the election of 2000, America's Democrats came to see Karl Rove rather as some British soldiers in the second world war saw Rommel - as the master opponent against whom their cause, however noble, was bound to founder. The reputation was exaggerated in both cases. Yet it also contained some truth.