first karl rove, he thought the drawn out primary process and the debates worked against mitt romney in the general election or in his words from a speech in pennsylvania, mitt romney had what i scientifically call a butt ugly primary. good for you, karl. the election didn't exactly end well for rove either having to answer to all the people who donated to his super pac in the hopes of a romney victory. didn't happen. then there's gop strategist glenn bolger who gave this blunt diagnosis for the loss at the republican governors association conference yesterday. >> what we need to do, one, is we need to convert and get more republicans because if we're going to win independents and get republicans and still lose an election, it's because there's too many damn democrats out there. >> too many, quote, damn democrats and not enough what, damn republicans? that's one way of summing up the arithmetic. you need an expert to do that for you? david letterman also weighed in