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Hillary Clinton has tried to steer clear of partisan fights while considering a second bid for the Oval Office.

Karl Rove just changed that.

The mastermind behind George W. Bushs two presidential victories drew Clinton back into hand-to-hand political combat by raising a question about her health.

Thirty days in the hospital? And when she reappears, shes wearing glasses that are only for people who have traumatic brain injury? Rove said, referring to Clintons 2012 fall, concussion and subsequent diagnosis of a blood clot, according to a New York Post report. We need to know whats up with that.

Clintons camp didnt hesitate to fire back. Karl Rove has deceived the country for years, but there are no words for this level of lying, Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill, a former State Department official, said in a statement.

She is 100 percent, Merrill added. Period.

Since Clinton resigned from the State Department in February 2013, her aides have declined to respond to most Republican attacks, preferring not to engage in campaign-style rapid response for a boss who insists she hasnt made up her mind about whether to run.

Two prospective presidential Republican rivals have taken shots at her. Florida Senator Marco Rubio gave her an F as secretary of state. Kentucky Senator Rand Paul raised the specter of Monica Lewinsky. And just this week, Rush Limbaugh said she didnt designate Boko Haram, the group that kidnapped more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls, as a terrorist organization because many of the groups members are black. None of it was enough to get a real rise out of Clinton.

The difference between Roves comments and the others, said one Democratic strategist who does not work for Clinton, is that health problems could disqualify a presidential candidate in the minds of voters.

For that reason, Clinton had to respond quickly and forcefully about her health, said the strategist, who asked not to be identified talking about a potential political vulnerability of a possible Democratic presidential candidate.

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Rove Draws Clinton Back Into Fray With Health Remarks

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(CNN) -- Karl Rove's suggestion that Hillary Clinton suffers from a brain injury is coming under attack.

Rove, the mastermind behind George W. Bush's two presidential election victories, appeared at a conference last Thursday, where he discussed a 2012 incident that sent the then-secretary of state to the hospital, according to the New York Post's Page Six, the newspaper's well-known gossip column.

"Thirty days in the hospital?" asked Rove, a Fox News Channel contributor, according to the report. "And when she reappears, she's wearing glasses that are only for people who have traumatic brain injury? We need to know what's up with that."

Clinton, who's seriously considering a second bid for the White House, suffered a blood clot in December 2012, after falling. After first going to the hospital for testing, Clinton later was admitted for a three-day stay at a hospital in New York City.

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Rove hints Clinton has brain damage

Clinton, 66 and the presumptive Democratic front-runner for the 2016 presidential race, was admitted to hospital in New York for three days to treat a concussion and blood clot she suffered in the fall, and which prevented her from testifying at the time about the deadly attack on the US mission in Benghazi, Libya.

Rove's comments could be seen as a bid to inject the question of Clinton's health and whether she is physically and mentally prepared for another gruelling presidential run into the conversation about 2016.

Clinton's team quickly rejected Rove's comments.

"Karl Rove has deceived the country for years, but there are no words for this level of lying," Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill said.

As to her health, "she is 100 per cent. Period."

Several Republicans had assailed Clinton for possibly exaggerating the seriousness of her condition in order to avoid testifying before Congress about the deadly September 11, 2012 attack.

In January 2013, she testified for seven hours about the crisis.

Clinton testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (AFP)

On Tuesday, Rove insisted he never said Clinton might have brain damage, as Page Six suggested.

"I never used that phrase," Rove told Fox News.

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