News Analysis; Rove's Election Triumphs Don't Alter Big Picture

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Washington - A few months after engineering George Bush's re- election, Karl Rove took a victory lap at a convention of conservative activists.

He celebrated the Republican Party's modern-day rise from the "wilderness" to become a "broad, self-assured" and "dominant" force in American politics.

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News Analysis; Rove's Election Triumphs Don't Alter Big Picture

He touted Bush's '04 victory as history making and ridiculed "smarty pants" liberals who doubted whether it was a "mandate."

But Rove added one caveat. He told Republicans that they should remember what political success did to Democrats.

"It is . . . a cautionary tale of what happens to a dominant party when its thinking becomes ossified, when its energy begins to drain, when an entitlement mentality takes ...

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