Odd bedfellows

This is the guy they throw up against Elliot Spitzer?

Mr. Weld, a native New Yorker who is now an investment adviser in Manhattan, said he had been encouraged to run by former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, an old friend, among others. Karl Rove, the White House political adviser, who worked for Mr. Weld in the 1990's, had also told him to consider running against Eliot Spitzer, the likely Democratic nominee, and the two men agreed that Mr. Spitzer was beatable, according to New York Republicans told about the exchange.

I have always been fond of Weld, but this has to be one of the strangest -- and lamest -- campaign launches of all time.

He's running at Karl Rove's suggestion, and he and the anonymice New York Republicans admit it?

Karl Rove's machinations do have boundaries. Pushing Pirro and Weld expose the limits of his powers.

And speaking of Weld, when did Karl Rove begin endorsing pot smokin', gay marriage supportin' politicians? Oh yeah. I forgot. It's about sheer numbers for Rove. Keeping a self-identified Republican in the governor's mansion in Albany.

Not actual, ya know, convictions.