Donald Trump and Karl Rove lead calls for revolution
/"The losing candidate has an important duty tonight," said Republican strategist Steve Schmidt as polling closed. "That's to concede the election in a graceful manner."
Around 1am, Mitt Romney duly obliged – but some of his allies did not get the memo. To put it mildly. "[Obama] lost the popular vote by a lot and won the election. We should have a revolution in this country!" noted Donald Trump, in a tweet that he slyly deleted once it became clear that, in fact, Obama had actually won the popular vote. "The world is laughing at us," Trump added, apparently without irony. "Lets [sic] fight like hell and stop this great and disgusting injustice!"
Not to be outdone, Karl Rove – the former Bush strategist, Fox News pundit and Romney donor – refused to admit that Obama had won Ohio, causing civil war among Fox's other analysts, who had already declared the state for the Democrats. "I'd be very cautious about interfering in this process," said Rove, conveniently forgetting that a similar intervention by Fox in 2000 had swung the election the way of his former boss. "That's awkward," said Fox's Megyn Kelly.
Earlier, Republican pundit Bill O'Reilly blamed the whole thing on race. "Obama wins because it's not a traditional America any more. The white establishment is the minority." Classy.
