Over at CrunchyCon Rod Dreher has a good overview on various thoughts about Rove plus good ones of his own including:

And so, it turns out that the house the Architect built was constructed on sand. It cannot have been otherwise in politics; there is no such thing as a permanent majority. Still, it’s stunning how far Rove’s star has fallen in only two years or so.
From genius to goat. I don’t think there will be many people in Washington sorry to see Rove hit the road back to Texas. And I don’t by any means think those folks will all be Democrats.