A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days

Behold. Comes now the discussion over whether Rove wrote this article because he genuinely wants Obama to win, thinking that Obama would be a weaker general election opponent, or whether he wrote it primarily because of the following paragraph:

Not that you have asked for advice, but here it is anyway: Iowa is your chance to best her. If you do not do it there, odds are you never will anywhere. You are way behind her in most national polls. The only way to change that is to beat her in Iowa so people around America take another look at you. You did a smart thing organising effectively in the early primary states. But you can take advantage of that only if you win Iowa and keep her from building an overwhelming sense of invincibility and inevitability.

(Emphasis mine.) Maybe the conventional wisdom is being set up to make Hillary Clinton the inevitable nominee if Obama fails to win in Iowa. And maybe that is happening because Rove actually thinks that Obama would be the toughest candidate for Republicans to beat.

I need to make sure that I have my tinfoil hat on before writing any more posts like this one.