Rove: Romney Had A ‘Butt-Ugly’ GOP Primary

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Karl Rove on Wednesday pointed to another reason why Mitt Romney fell short last week: the protracted Republican nomination contest that spanned several months and saw a handful of different frontrunners before the party ultimately settled on the former Massachusetts governor.

Rove, whose super PAC American Crossroads dropped hundreds of millions of dollars in support of Republican candidates this year, told a crowd at Northwest Pennsylvania Collegiate Academy in Erie, Pa. that the GOP primaries featured “way too many debates” and often veered away from the paramount issue of the economy to focus on social issues instead. The process, Rove contended, put Romney in an unfavorable light.

“Mitt Romney had what I scientifically call a butt-ugly primary,” Rove said.

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