Karl Rove gave a speech in Nevada on Saturday. Here’s part of what the press account says:

The country, he said, is still center-right. Obama won the presidency because he campaigned as a centrist, only to take office and govern as a liberal, Rove said.

He called the ongoing debate among Republicans about whether the party should return to its roots or chart a new course “sterile, artificial and unnecessary.”

His solution: “We can draw on our timeless principles and apply them to the new circumstances we face as a country.”

What timeless principles is Rove talking about? He is talking about fiscal conservatism? If he was, then he is a hypocrite since he and Bush weren’t fiscal conservatives.

One of Bush’s biggest problems is that he didn’t seem to embody timeless principles. He tried to do some good things, but he wasn’t successful in making positive change. Maybe Iraq took all of Bush’s political capital.

But really, what timeless principles did Bush and Rove apply when in the White House?