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Herman Cain hit back at Karl Rove's criticism of his campaign Monday, saying the former adviser to President George W. Bush was deliberately attacking him for being a non-traditional Republican candidate. Cain also said he believed that Rove wanted Mitt Romney to earn the Republican nomination.

"It's a good thing the voters are not looking at Karl Rove's little whiteboard," Cain told The Washington Examiner.  "I believe it is a deliberate attempt to damage me because I am not, quote unquote, the establishment choice.  But why not go with the choice that the people seem to like?"

Rove, in an appearance Monday morning on Fox News, used a a whiteboard to list a number of Cain's gaffes that could hurt his campaign, including his comments last week on abortion that raised eyebrows among some conservatives, his Afghan and Palestinian foreign policy positions, and statements in an interview that he was unfamiliar with the neoconservative moment. Rove also critiqued Cain's 9-9-9 tax plan.

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