Think Progress has the audio of this gem from Karl Rove:

In his interview with Rush Limbaugh this afternoon, Karl Rove claimed that the people criticizing Bush are “sort of elite, effete snobs who can’t hold a candle to this guy. What they don’t like about him is that he is common sense, that he is Middle America.” Limbaugh suggest that Bush critics are frustrated the the President “outsmarts ‘em.” Rove argued Bush is far more intelligent than people give him credit for, and is “one of the best-read people I’ve ever met” whose “passion is history.”

At least we now know why he quit… he’s lost complete touch with reality.

On a serious note, do you get the sense that White House officials, specifically Rove and Cheney, are talking about themselves when they talk about the President? That even they realize they supported a hollow suit so they could run the country? I’m being serious here, because there’s no way they could legitimately believe the stuff they say about Mr. Bushism himself.