Last year, after the Detroit Tigers knocked the Yankees out of the playoffs, I wrote an entry comparing Joe Torre and Karl Rove.
http://www.r8ny.com/blog/jerry_skurnik/joe_torre_karl_rove.html
The gist of it was my belief that people are too quick to brand baseball managers losers despite their overall record and too many political folks are too quick to call anyone involved with a losing campaign an idiot.
Now we have it again. Yankee fans booed Joe Torre last Sunday and Newt Gingrich is calling Karl Rove’s strategy in 2004 “maniacally dumb”.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/06/04/070604fa_fact_goldberg?printable=true