“In southern Delaware where there are a lot of churchgoing people, they’re going to want to know what that is all about,” the former aide to President George W. Bush told “Fox News Sunday.”

“My view is she can’t simply ignore it,” he said. “She’s got to deal with it and explain it and put it in its most sympathetic light and move on.”…

“She can’t simply say, ‘Oh these are unfactual, and not true,’ and just ignore them,” Rove also said. “I don’t think the people of Delaware have or are accepting that as a reasonable explanation.