Karl Rove's PAC Trying to Win Arkansas, North Carolina by Running Left of Pryor, Hagan

Breitbart ^ | 30 Aug 2014 | C. EDMUND WRIGHT

[SoConPubbie]

Karl Rove and his Crossroads GPS PAC are about to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in the senate -- by campaigning to the left of incumbents Mark Pryor and Kay Hagan on behalf of Republican challengers Tom Cotton and Thom Tills.

So blatant is this attempt in the latest round of TV ads that the Washington Post teased Rove with a headline that taunted him as a "bleeding heart liberal." Reporter/blogger Greg Sargent said in the story that the two ad campaigns "show Republicans once again hitting Dems from the left on entitlements." Salon ridiculed the North Carolina ad as the "dumbest of the season" so far, and it was almost identical to one run in Arkansas a few weeks ago.

The Post and Salon are often wrong in their assessment of Republican strategies, but in this instance, they are right on the money. In the recent spots for both the Arkansas and North Carolina markets, the emphasis is on Social Security and plays on the fears that Pryor and Hagan both support raising the eligibility age for benefits. When you consider that incrementally and gradually raising the benefit age is a common sense conservative idea -- and that Democrats routinely fear monger off of this very issue -- this is a clear case of Rove trying to out-liberal the Democrat candidates and not just settling for the normal "Democrat lite" campaign the GOP establishment prefers.

While this shameless pandering is bad enough on its on, it is simply incomprehensible given the current mood of the country to reject big government liberalism and all things Obama. It is also the most cynical type of niche politics.

[mosesdapoet]

Damage Control...
I think there is more direct consternation with those respective incumbents positions or lack of them over the price for a gallon of gas , rising electric prices,or both directly connected with coping with those costly and pesky EPA regulations than on when to apply for a government retirement package.

Why is it necessary for an applicant to wait until age 70 to apply for Social Security for full benefits? Could be the question . Not when ?

Rove’s Crossroad’s useless interjection could be used that way by our two conservatives. Bringing up our ebbing manufacturing base and the democrat policies which created that need ie don’t get diverted stay directed.

[RginTN]

I saw a Rove ad and it didn’t impress. Thought a lib put it together.

[Servant of the Cross]

Rove ... you STUPID BASTARD!

[C. Edmund Wright]

yep - not “magnificent” by a long shot. Bastard? Oh yeah.

[Monorprise]

Karl Rove seems to have picked up some very messed up democrat ‘friends’ who must be surreptitiously feeding him some sort of delusional drugs.

[Monorprise]

I retract my statement, Karl Rove campaign policy is to hammer at the Democrat’s own base, that is intelligent even if it appears to support liberal policy’s.

We are never going to dismantle theses systems by appearing to be against those who have become depended upon theses government scams. Instead we should be doing as Karl Rove is doing is undermining their confident in the reliability of such promises.

We should be laving Karl Rove alone here, indeed let him spend his money anyway he wants following his goals, just acknowledge at the end of the day we won’t be voting that way.