Karl Rove's association with dirty tricks in politics has a long history. One article from 1991 goes into a lot of detail about some of Rove's activities. http://www.texasobserver.org/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=398 Check out the following search results I got when I GOOGLED the terms Karl Rove dirty tricks: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Karl+Rove+dirty+tricks&btnG=Google+Search