It looks like President Bush has found his weapons of mass distraction. They were in Karl Rove’s desk drawer all the time.

Rove pulls them out every few days to keep the voters from thinking about such dicey subjects as (a) a great economy for those who own stock, or (b) a preemptive war still looking for an acceptable reason, or (c) the disenfranchisement “by mistake” of tens of thousands of Florida’s black voters coincidentally guaranteeing the president’s victory, or (d) Sen. Kerry changing his mind in the face of new evidence, ignoring the excuses made by the president when the evidence was never there. Or (e) all of the above.

Rove’s WMDs are like the Internet’s urban legends. They contain just enough truth so that the gullible and the disinterested believe them.

One has the vice president (who didn’t have time for the military) mocking Kerry (who served) by plucking a single word from a speech and twisting it enough to make the decorated combat veteran sound a fool.

Of course the gullible laughed and applauded the non-veteran’s sense of humor and the disinterested asked how the Sox did.

Rove knows there is nothing positive to talk about. He can only flip the president’s flops and hope there are enough gullible and disinterested voters to add to the faithful’s votes. Failing that, there’s always Justice Scalia.

Tony Nazar, Wilton