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Wanna know why George W. Bush won the election? Watch this film. The film looks at the work of Bush’s senior advisor Karl Rove. Based on the best-selling book, the film lays out pretty much the same information. The talking heads in the film make a strong case for how Rove will try to win at any cost.

From bugging his own office to starting whisper campaigns about Texas governor Anne Richards being a lesbian and senator John McCain having a black love child, his fingerprints seem to be clearly on all those occurrences. The wealth of similar actions in every campaign that he is involved in begs to say that he is behind these actions.

The worst information the film issues is the man’s determination to destroy people who cross him. It seems clear that he did this to agriculture officials in Texas, which looks similar to the CIA leak in the White House. He was kicked off the Reagan-Bush campaign for linking info.

The film does get heavy handed at times (especially with the grieving soldier’s family, which Michael Moore handled far better in FAHRENHEIT 9/11), but it paints a compelling picture nonetheless. It’s pretty scary that the position of senior advisor is something that the American people have no control over. What’s scarier is that if Rove is guilty of half the things that are suggested in this film, we have a very dangerous person in power for another four years.