I'm probably not going to stun you by telling you that Karl Rove is using racial code words. But as long as we're talking about Andrew Cuomo's decision to stick his foot so far into his mouth that it's coming out of his behind, you really must read Karl Rove's piece on New Hampshire in today's Journal oped page.

I'll just pick out the highlights, but in the course of a single column Rove manages to flag Obama's "trash talking", "his days playing pickup basketball at Harvard", and the alleged fact that "he is often lazy."

It's January. Obama's five days as frontrunner are over, at least for the moment. So you can just imagine how dirty this is going to get.