Rove on Debate: Trump Doesn’t Want the Position To Be Counterpunching All the Time

ROVE: "Show the energy and the emotion and show the — all that we’ve seen from the Donald in previous weeks, but aimed at an issue, aimed at the thing that he disagrees with, rather than aiming it indiscriminately at both that and his fellow competitors on the stage. It is going to be problematic for him if he does things like he’s done to Rick Perry, you know, mocking him for his glasses, because the rules have already — Fox has already made clear, you use somebody’s name, you go after somebody, they’re going to give that somebody a chance to respond. And in politics, the counterpunch is often times more powerful than the punch. And what Donald Trump doesn’t want to place himself in the position of doing is throwing a punch, and having counterpunches wailed on him throughout the night."