Thread: Rove Group Buys $20 Million in Attack Ads

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By Josh Kraushaar, National Journal

Rove Group Buys $20 Million in Attack Ads


Karl Rove's PAC will pour $20 million into negative ads over the next two months attacking President Obama over his economic policies. (photo: Sue Ogrocki/AP)

he conservative group Crossroads' GPS policy arm is going up with a significant $5 million advertising campaign next week, attacking President Obama on the economy, according to a copy of the ad shared with National Journal.

Over the next two months, the group's television campaign targeting Obama's record on the economy will total $20 million.

The first ad (below), which begins airing next Monday, shows a clip of Obama joking this month that some of the shovel-ready projects in the stimulus "was not as shovel ready as we expected" while highlighting rising unemployment and gas prices since he took office.

"Obama's $830 billion stimulus failed," a narrator says in the ad. "14 million out of work. America drowning in debt. It's time to take away Obama's blank check."

The ad will be running on cable nationwide and also in key battleground states that Obama is focused on holding for his re-election. They include: including Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Missouri, North Carolina, New Mexico, Nevada, and Virginia. It will be running for two weeks.

The $20 million that the Rove-aligned group has committed to the ad campaign - well over one year before the presidential election - is a telling indicator of how much clout it will be wielding in the 2012 campaign. It raised about $70 million for the entire 2010 cycle on Senate and House races. In just one campaign, it's spending a significant sum of that to attack President Obama at this early stage.

And the money on this one ad campaign alone is more than three times the $6.2 million that the Republican National Committee, which usually funds ads like these, has in cash on hand. (That doesn't include the $18.5 million the RNC has in debt.)

The group today announced, at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast, it had pledged to raise about $120 million for the 2012 cycle as it attempts to amplify the Republican message in the presidential election, as well as battleground Senate and House contests.

American Crossroads officials have raised the specter that President Obama is poised to raise $1 billion for his re-election, raising the stakes for outside Republican groups to level the playing field. Its GPS sister organization doesn't have to disclose donors.

A new report filed yesterday with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) shows that American Crossroads has raised $3.8 million this year. Over 90 percent of that money came from just three donors. The group spent about $600,000 to help Republican Jane Corwin in an off-year House election, but Democrats picked up the seat.

The group just went up this week with a $50,000 radio ad attacking one of the more vulnerable Democratic senators up for re-election next year, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.

VIDEO: Crossroads GPS: Shovel Ready
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvnAE8ol ... r_embedded

Source: http://readersupportednews.org/news-sec ... attack-ads

I'll be the first to chime in here pose Karl with this question ..

HOW MUCH OF YOUR $20 MILLION ARE YOU USING TO EXPOSE THE UNDERGROUND ECONOMY AND THE ILLEGAL ALIEN INVASION FROM MEXICO?

Originally Posted by HAPPY2BME

I'll be the first to chime in here pose Karl with this question ..

HOW MUCH OF YOUR $20 MILLION ARE YOU USING TO EXPOSE THE UNDERGROUND ECONOMY AND THE ILLEGAL ALIEN INVASION FROM MEXICO?

Probably not one red cent! But I'll be happy to see those ads shining a bright light on Obozo's failures, just wish it was from someone more aligned to OUR cause!

Originally Posted by nomas

Probably not one red cent! But I'll be happy to see those ads shining a bright light on Obozo's failures, just wish it was from someone more aligned to OUR cause!

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Don't fool yourself. Karl Rove is driven by one thing - $ GREED $.

We are occupied by over 20 million illegal aliens from Mexico thanks to Karl Rove and George W. Bush.

Karl Rove and the corporate corruption he represents are the very same traitors today as he was the day he endoresed LaRaza publicly and openly.

CORPORATIONS + LA RAZA = OPEN BORDERS? - Big Corporations, Karl Rove Openly Pander To LaRaza

http://www.fulldisclosure.net/flash/Vid ... Blog32.php

Included in the video are:

* Corporate sponsors of the event pitching to the Hispanic audience.
* Excerpts from Karl Rove, White House strategist on the Administration's Immigration reform policy.
* Reaction from a sampling of attendees representing Latino and migrant rights organizations.
* Video clips interviews with the Nativo Lopez, president of MAPA a prominent retired Hispanic law enforcement official. L. A. County Sheriff's Sergeant Richard Valdemar.

"Border security is simply IMPOSSIBLE . . without reducing the pressure on the border. As the president likes to say, "Family values don't stop at the Rio Grande." If you can make fifty cents an hour in Mexico and ten bucks an hour in the United States and you want to feed your family, you're coming to the United States every time ."
Karl Rove speaking to LaRaza, July, 2006