In offering Newsweek his prescription for a Republican rebound, Karl Rove offers some praise to North Carolina?s soon-to-be-senior senator:

Senate and House Republicans will be seen more than any party chair or 2012 aspirant. Sen. Mitch McConnell and Rep. John Boehner must put on center stage their most persuasive, compelling members: Richard Burr and Jon Kyl in the Senate, and Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor, Mike Pence, Cathy McMorris, Peter Roskam and Kevin McCarthy in the House, for example.

We?ve already discussed in this forum the race to face Burr in 2010.