Excerpt: "An early Crossroads ad claims Warren 'sides with extreme left protests' in the Occupy Wall Street movement, which supports 'radical redistribution of wealth.' Now, the group charges that Warren oversaw a TARP program that 'bail[ed] out the same banks that caused the financial meltdown.' Warren released a Web advertisement Friday calling the charge 'ridiculous.' 'I've spent years standing up to Wall Street and big banks,' she said. 'No attack ad, and certainly not one from Karl Rove and Wall Street, will change that.'"
Elizabeth Warren gestures during a forum at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts, 12/06/11. (photo: Gary Higgins/Quincy Patriot Ledger/AP)
Elizabeth Warren Fires Back at Karl Rove Ad
11 December 11
lizabeth Warren, the consumer advocate-turned-Massachusetts Senate candidate, is fighting back after a new ad from an independent group founded by Karl Rove accuses her of being too close to big business.
Warren has emerged as an early target of Rove's Crossroads GPS, which plans to be active in the 2012 races for House and Senate, as it was in the 2010 midterm elections. Warren is the likely Democratic candidate to face incumbent Republican Sen. Scott Brown, who won the seat once held by Edward M. Kennedy in a 2010 special election.
An early Crossroads ad claims Warren "sides with extreme left protests" in the Occupy Wall Street movement, which supports "radical redistribution of wealth." Now, the group charges that Warren oversaw a TARP program that "bail[ed] out the same banks that caused the financial meltdown."
Warren released a Web advertisement Friday calling the charge "ridiculous."
"I've spent years standing up to Wall Street and big banks," she said. "No attack ad, and certainly not one from Karl Rove and Wall Street, will change that."
The Massachusetts race could be one of the marquee contests in the battle for control of the Senate, now held narrowly by Democrats. It represents one of the few opportunities for Democrats to pick up a Republican-held seat; the party is defending 23 of its own.
A new poll this week conducted by the University of Massachusetts for the Boston Herald showed Warren leading Brown 49% to 42%. Brown had led Warren 41% to 38% in the university's September survey.
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Warren is well known, admired and respected in Massachusetts. Rove is also known -- for his viscous, unethical, deceitful attacks. He goes after an opponents strengths and discredits them.
Remember John Kerry's medals and military service being attacked by the "Swift Board" crew? Meanwhile, Bush, who bailed on his military service was presented as a leader. We saw where that led.
We have Elizabeth's back. I have no doubt that she'll replace the Wall Street owned Scott Brown, Rove be damned!
His days of controlling our country are over along with his Idiotocracy cronies.
CL38
Unfortunately, it COULD.... IF we let down our guard. You correctly pointed out the "swift-boating of Kerry. He was effectively finished after that......... BECAUSE HE DIDN'T RESPOND IMMEDIATELY.
He didn't realize the danger he was in till it was too late.
I think Elisabeth Warren is fully aware of that, and she DOES respond RIGHT AWAY.
That is great, but it also means that we MUST make certain, she has the means to do so.
She is not just good for Massachussetts.
She has become a SYMBOL for all of us (thinking people) and Rove and the other creeps would love to finish her off.
Do not underestimate the influence of Fox and the ignorance of a great many Fox viewers.
Also there is an entire YEAR till the election. It is MUCH to early to rejoyce over polls.
WE CAN NOT LET THEM WIN. POWER TO THE PEOPLE
The Devil in disguize who ruined our country and will take years to get us out of this hole.
Kerry, a war monger? You really do not know your history. It was Bush who was a war monger who did not fight for his country. Kerry did, saved lives in the war, of course if you believed in those Swift boat adds of Rove then I know where you stand and it is with the Repugs. And by the way it is his wife who is the mega millionaire he just married into it.
NEVER VOTE REPUBLICAN !!
when I talked about wishing.
She said: Wish in one hand, and spit in the other and se what you've got most in!
We have REAL MONSTERS to fight we can't afford to wish
Karl Rove is a prime example of the lack of ethics and humanity of the repugnants. My advice to Rove and his buddies - make sure your lies are all pointing in the same direction before you spread your brand of political propaganda!!
Bush's little term of endearment for Rove, "turd," certainly is apropos.
BOBERT PLEASE DONT INSULT THE PIGS. THANKS
When Rove advised on George W. Bush's 1994 race for governor of Texas against Democratic incumbent Ann Richards, a persistent whisper campaign in conservative East Texas wrongly suggested that Richards was a lesbian. According to Texas journalist Lou Dubose: "No one ever traced the character assassination to Rove. Yet no one doubts that Rove was behind it. It's a process on which he holds a patent. Identify your opponent's strength, and attack it so relentlessly that it becomes a liability. Richards was admired because she promised and delivered a 'government that looked more like the people of the state.' That included the appointment of blacks, Hispanics and gays and lesbians. Rove made that asset a liability."
Read more: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/opinion/article/Rove-s-dirty-tricks-Let-us-count-the-ways-1246665.php#ixzz1gFvX8JyR
Keep Fighting the good fight Elizabeth !!!
I know how you feel, neddycat -- I live in TX too. You're right -- donating to a decent candidate's campaign here would be wasting money.
The GOP strategy of keeping the nation unemployed in roder to win the next White House didn't take into consideration how it feels to be hungry and sleepless because there is a never ending barrage of bill collectors and unpaid debt staring at the greater American public. Rove and his boys have reached a tipping point and don't even know it. The arrogance of thinking they they "own" the country has blinded them. It is the "Ends justify the means" generation no better than the old Soviet Union in their lust for Tsarism with a different name.
At this point , even if the GOP/TP try for a military coup to take over the country it is too late. This is a very big nation and there are a lot of people init who are not addicted to their BMWs and Stock Portfolios. The nation has gotten leaner and meaner and more ready to take back what has always been theirs to begin with.
Elizabeth Warren is the clarion call!!! Her ovaries are lot bigger than Roves old queenie balls.
In the USA, alas, it is increasingly possible to say things that are venal and stupid at the same time, and not just "get away with it," but achieve political victory.
Don't feel bad, though, for bereft of principled politicians, the rest of the world isn't far behind in the descent.
Looking south, I wish Ms. Warren the best. Her victory wouldn't be much but it would be something ... and a hint of the long-delayed "change we can believe in."
Why is everyone preaching to the choir about pondscum Rove. Every intelligent person knows the truth about this slimy snake (my apologies to the reptile species). Why not try to find a way to eliminate (legally) this aboration. Any constructive ideas? Anyone? But I digress. We must get back that Mass. Senate seat and Elizabeth seems the best candidate to do that. I guess public advertising is currently the best way to accomplish it (although I strongly believe we must get the money out of politics) and so I will donate.
Elizabeth you go girl, everyone but a few misguided right wing nut jobs know that its not true.
NEVER EVER VOTE REPUBLICAN!!
Per article by Professor Edmund Pries in (Toronto)Star 8-12-2011
here's an excerpt:
During the Reagan era, a friend and former colleague, a professor of American history, was invited to the deliberations of a Washington think-tank that provided policy direction for the Republican Party. As they discussed growing the debt and increasing the deficit, he was flabbergasted: “Are you not the party of balanced budgets and debt elimination?” The reply was unequivocal, “Our goal is to grow the deficit as much as possible in order to create political space to eliminate government-funded programming. Until then, we want high deficits while lobbying for a balanced budget — and promoting social program cuts as the only solution.”
To create this useful deficit, tax cuts to wealthy individuals and corporate sectors would be dramatically increased, especially to the banking, energy and military segments. In short, one would implement a transfer of the state’s revenue supply obligations from the wealthiest to the poor and middle classes in order to permit an even greater transfer of wealth from the middle classes to the rich thereafter.
The only trick was to convince the poor and middle classes to “buy in” via a mixture of patriotism and structural necessity so that they would vote in favour of cutting the very programs that benefitted them.
DON'T EVER FORGET THAT IS WHAT THEY INTEND TO DO.
We have to realize what we are up against and act accordingly.
NEVER EVER VOTE REPUBLICAN
If you are this ignorant, you had better hold your tongue! Rove is no aristocrat! He's just a wannabe plutocrat. Aristocrats are bred and educated with the ever present obligation of "noblesse oblige"
Which is what I was saying... no honour, no aristocrat.
The current yahoos are merely vile, bourgeois narcissists and cruel tyrants. At least the old "feudalistas" knowingly let a few crumbs fall from the table; these people slurp up the goodies and then crawl on the floor in an effort to ensure that they can lick up the crumbs before the peasants and all others "below the salt" can get to them.
That isn't very symmetrical. Even these days, I'll bet (maybe I'll bet Mitt Romney $10 thousand) that the TV ad will get many more eyeballs than the web ad. I hope she puts this on basic cable. And yes, I've donated.
Elizabeth Warren is the REAL DEAL. This woman should be runing for President!
I cannot understand why the public buys these lies.
The public "buys these lies" because, as very expensive and time-consuming Madison Avenue Research indicates, the average American is operating at what amounts to a sixth-grade educational level. And that's the *average* American.
That is why so many TV commercials come across as "stupid". Madison Avenue knows their target audience much better than do you and I. If their stuff offends the better educated audience, so what ? The better educated are not the majority market (or the majority voter).
are scum, that needs to be cleaned away, to improve the country, While we at it we needs to find out all the Koch's products, and BOYCOT them.
GEORGE ORWELL
Professor Warren is not a "sexy old school marm" She is a very bright, intelligent, educated woman. Some stupid male chauvenistic guys can't see that because she is also charming. You are pitiful
Even I, a lifelong admitted male supremacist, could easily vote for this woman, if she turns out to be the full monte, the real deal; is there a "real deal" left in American politics after the last 30 years, or merely an army of revolving-door lobbyist-drones cloned from Tom DeLay or John Boehner, paying their dues in elective office, "representing the people"? We shall see. It's fitting that she's in MA, the formative turf of not only JFK and RFK, my adolescent heroes, but the American Revolution (Sorry New Hampshire--blame Bachmann).
Of course, Hillary might still want a bite of that apple in 2016, so that may be very interesting, but for my money, Warren is the truer voice of ordinary citizens, the 99% (I recommend Christopher Hitchens' little-known book about the Clintons, "No One Left to Lie To" to provide more insight into Hillary's carefully cultivated political persona).
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