Rove Group Ad Attacks ‘Professor Elizabeth Warren’ And Her ‘Intellectual Theories’

I noticed right away that they tagged Warren as "Professor" in the first few seconds of the ad. You know what? Most of the people in Mass aren't going to mind that someone who is smart enough to be a professor is running to represent them. Anyone who perks up at this dog whistle isn't going to vote for Warren anyway.

I'd love to see a Colbert SuperPAC response to this: "If you don't want no stinkin' smartypants elected, vote for Scott Brown!"

Robert Watson, a high-ranking Republican state legislator in Rhode Island, is in hot water after being charged with driving under the influence of marijuana and possession; “trickle down” economics was first introduced. The idea was marketed as “ we give huge tax cuts to the wealthy and they will in turn re-invest in America and create jobs”; -- THE AD SEEMS TO HAVE CONFUSED REPUBLICANS WITH THE OWS GROUP.

Voodoo Economics: http://farmwars.info/?p=3431

What's next?: "She's an intellectual! Burn her!"?

Only relevant in this thread in the sense of illustrating the willful ignorance too common on the right, and which is too often a factor in elections:

I saw a bumper sticker today that said "From tiny ACORNs, mighty Marxists Grow"

So, there was someone who was (a) ignorant enough to believe such crap, and (b) stupid enough to put it on a commercial vehicle, thus advertising wherever he goes that his business is run by somebody stupid and ignorant.

It's a constant battle. We think it should be obvious to one and all that Warren would be far better than Brown, yet, bafflingly, those characteristics we see as part of what would make her an excellent Senator are seen by Republicans as points of attack.

Damn. Really not trying not to be the Klan anymore. Right out of their psalm book from the 60s: Goddam pintee-headed inteeletshuls!

Karl is wasting money big time. People can see for themselves. Too late for a smear campaign because not only did Warren lay out the issues so clearly in that YouTube video, people have also seen, experienced, know the Occupy Wall Streeters, a crowd of self-policed and very clever people.

Despite the smear efforts most people in the country agree with Warren and OWS,

But Karl and his ilk will continue to believe, as a Wall Streeter once was quoted in the NYT business pages as saying, "One dollar equals one vote."

That may be over: look at the wasted money in Ohio, for example. And how about Iowa NOT going the way the GOP planned? And how about Kentucky!!!???

Oh, my gosh, a professor. Just as I suspected, Repubs and Teapers consider ignorance an asset and an education a detriment. What a slimy cretin Rove is. Oh well, S cott B rown, if you lie down with dogs, you are condemned to get fleas.

The GOP desperately needs voters who are confirmed independents or those leaning one way or the other, particularly in the swing states. Demographic assessments that I've seen indicatre that about two of three of OWS activists and supporters are mostly independent, not particularly enamored of either major party.

So it is beyond me as to why GOP ads continue to associate Occupy participants with crime, violence, drugs and radical politics. It seems like a page out of the Nixon - Agnew playbook villifying the "bums" involved in various aspects of the 60's counterculture.

GOP attack machine is always sleazy, but usually somewhat effective. With respect to their attacks on Ms. Warren, they are badly fooled by the pitch and continue to swing and miss.

Rove paid over a half a million $$$ for these ridiculous obviously misleading ads, filled with the hopeless grasping at straws in desperation Right-wing smears and talking points. Why?? Why pay all this money for that, and why pay it at all when you can catch these ridiculous ads for free on the internet?? Rove is notorious for lying, about a great many things,, no doubt about it. Maybe he should spend the money wisely and do some polling to see where the public really stands on these issues. Demeaning the OWS movement is not a wise move.

I think I'm going to initiate a new drinking game, except without the alcohol. Or maybe in addition to the alcohol. Rather than (just) drinking when there's a new ad against Warren, I'm going to make a donation to her campaign. I expect there'll be a lot of ads so the individual contributions may not be that much, but every time I see an ad attacking her, she gets more money from me. I invite everyone to join in this game, whether or not you live in MA.

How dare we even consider electing smart, educated people for positions of responsibility.

The GOP is making Stephen Colbert's extreme parody look moderate.

science always gets attacked. studies in animals have a greater purpose generally. intellectual republicans have let the dumb part of their party run the show too much.

Look at them rip the stimulus, which, of course, was a Bush gift, it was just implemented in the next year's budget. They certainly know how dim their supporters are, I'll give them that.

Indeed, she may even want to bring back -- gulp! -- democracy!

Elizabeth Warren is an extraterrestial intellectual!

Elvis is her mother!

She has a twin brother who is a watermelon!

Stuff like this is why other developed countries look at our politics with bewilderment. This may be the only country where being or appearing intelligent is actually a liability when seeking office. And it hasn't always been so.

A college professor -- and a thespian, too, no doubt.

Stupid smart people think they know better...

Those who denounce "the government" in a democracy are anti-democracy.

Those who denounce the press are opposed to transparency and therefore accountability and therefore are anti-democracy.

Those who denounce the facts are propangandists seeking to subvert accountability and therefore are anti-democracy.

Those who denouce intellectuals are opposed to facts and accountability and transparency and therefore are anti-democracy.

Not anti-Democrat., Anti-democracy.

$4.4 million ad buy.

I wonder how many of the geniuses out there realize that everyone of these ad-buys is a tax on the economy. Every gallon of gas, every cleaning product, every thing they buy is more expensive because some management team somewhere decided that these ads a a legitimate business expense.

Here in Wisconsin, this kind of argument works great. You even have newspapers like the Wisconsin State Journal using it. Let's face it: they've already convinced a substantial part of the population not to listen to economists.

Elizabeth Warren is prepared for much worse. She only has Nancy Pelosi's experience to remind her.

Yeah! Damn those smart people and their 'theories' lording it all over us.

We need a dumb shit from Texas who does what we tell him to when he's not choking on pretzels and playing with his army men.

yup. if there's one thing rovians don't like is edgycashun.

What are the odds of this convincing anyone who does not already want to vote against her?

The right's alternate reality is coming back to bite them in the ass, they have convinced themselves that intellectuals are bad so it becomes a line of attack, most people however don't see that as an attack so much as a compliment. Shadenfreude abounds

"Protesters attack police, do drugs, and trash public parks."

As opposed to those upstanding young people at Penn State? Seriously, folks, Zuccotti Park is the cleanest public space I have ever seen in New York City. They've even got port-a-potties now (at the United Federation of Teachers a couple blocks down Broadway, in back on the loading dock) which is a service previously unseen in the history of Manhattan!