Let’s face it, I mean, I’m a myth. You know, I’m Beowulf, you know, I’m Grendel. I don’t know who I am. But they’re after me.

–Karl Rove, President Bush’s (former) chief political adviser, complaining—as Alessandra Stanley puts it—that "Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill were Captain Ahabs relentlessly pursuing him as the big white whale." [NYT]