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Posted on 06/25/2011 5:51:27 PM PDT by randita
Karl Rove’s Money Machine Goes Live With $20 Million Anti-Obama Campaign (VIDEO)
Evan McMorris-Santoro
June 24, 2011
The real starting gun of the 2012 presidential race may be sounding Monday, and it's coming in the form of massive attack ad campaign aimed squarely at President Obama's economic record.
Crossroads GPS, anonymous-money collecting arm of the Citzens United-inspired political machine founded by Karl Rove and other Republican heavyweights, is going live with a $20 million television ad campaign targeting the president 497 days before voters head to the polls in November 2012.
The ads will start appearing on Monday, and will run on national cable as well as broadcast covering key swing states, including Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, New Mexico, Nevada, and Virginia.
The opening round buy is $5 million, enough to keep the ad on the air for two weeks.
Crossroads GPS says the ad is the opening salvo in a "new $20 million issue advocacy initiative over the next two months to frame the national debate on jobs, the economy and the national debt in anticipation of congressional action on these issues."
TPM asked the Obama campaign about the ad, and Rove's new $20 million campaign. Spokesperson Ben LaBolt said people who have he the kind of political Rove does shouldn't throw stones when it comes to the economy.
"It's no surprise that Karl Rove would produce an ad that clouds over the failed economic policies that led us into the recession and ignores the President's efforts that have put us on a path to recovery," he said. "Maybe that's because the Republican candidates are proposing a return to those same failed policies of the past - rolling back Wall Street oversight, extending tax cuts for the richest Americans on the backs of middle class families and ending Medicare as we know it."
At a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor this morning, the heads of American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS -- the twin arms of the money machine founded in part by Rove -- told reporters that it planned to spend more than $100 million on the 2012 cycle, making it a major player on the scene. Next week's buy suggests a healthy portion of that money will be spent on attacking Obama.
Democrats have assailed groups like GPS, which can raise unlimited amounts of money from anonymous sources. At the same time, they've started their own similar groups to defended Democratic turf and promised to try and keep the financial playing field level.
At the breakfast this morning, the heads of American Crossroads said they expected to be outspent, calling the fight against Obama's fundraising machine a "David vs. Goliath" battle.
"It's no surprise that Karl Rove would produce an ad that clouds over the failed economic policies that led us into the recession and ignores the President's efforts that have put us on a path to recovery," he said. "Maybe that's because the Republican candidates are proposing a return to those same failed policies of the past - rolling back Wall Street oversight, extending tax cuts for the richest Americans on the backs of middle class families and ending Medicare as we know it."
Good Lord indeed. These people are either sociopaths or are delusional. I see no alternative.
Great post (charts).
no doubt anti-conservative also.
The problem is Rove and most of the GOP are just as ignorant of economics as Obama.
Dems decided to hold their fire last year and what they offered was too little, too late. The electorate’s mind was made up sometime in September and didn’t change. I expect that is one of Rove’s goals - to raise the % of people who say there’s no way they will vote for Obama.
It’s a big risk if Dems let these ads go unanswered. But what can they go up with that’s positive without spewing a bunch of lies?
And there is going to be resentment if a lot of money is spent propping up Obama at the expense of statewide races.
Wish I knew what Rove’s end game is. This is no doubt the opening salvo of many barrages to come.
So long as the target remains Obama, you’ll not hear a negative peep out of me. I am, however, highly suspicious of the man, particularly after than weeks-long shreiking hissy fit he threw trashing the Republican winner in Delaware.
At a minimum, these targeted ads will likely be the vehicle with which to frame the debate in a manner most favorable to the candidate or candidates he most favors as well. Romney, for the most part.
But, prove me wrong, Karl. Keep it clean and keep your focus on Obama. In that you’d have my full support.
David Bossie, maybe. Rove? I doubt it.
From the looks of things it will be Obama vs Romney, or, should he not run (a 50/50 chance) it will be Hilary vs Romney. Either way the elite will win; America will lose.
Florida news--let's keep our eye out for these anti-Hussein truthful ads.
Thank God someone is starting to take this clown on in the public airwaves. Karl Rove may not be everyone's hero, and there is plenty to criticize Rove about--his anti-Palin remarks, for instance. But I applaud him openly taking on the anti-capitalist Hussein.
Rove also has a great anti-Debbie Wasserman Douchebag ad on youtube: “Debbie Downer” is the name, and it is hilarious.
Oh sure.
obama is going to run against Bush...again ?
The RINO Doughboy epitomizes everything wrong with the GOP establishment. I trust KR less than Grover Norquist, whom I do not trust at all.
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I believe compromise is impossible with the liberals; they and their followers live in an alternate universe.
There’s the ad...easily found on a search. How can this be described as “anti-conservative”?
I am very curious to know- of all of the idiotic, disastrous actions of GWB in his second term, who's idea were they? GWB's ( I do realize that ultimately they were his responsibility ) Rove's, Cheney's, or someone else's? Anyone have a clue?
Has anyone else noticed the preponderance of kinky-haired women on the loony left? I can’t recall seeeing any conservative women with hair like that.
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