Rightwingers Launch Insurgency Against Obama's 2012 Bid

Have you seen these new ads lately?  Here's the scoop from Beth Fouhy of the AP (via Breitbart.com):

GOP-leaning group launches ads criticizing Obama

NEW YORK (AP) - A Republican-leaning independent fundraising group announced Friday it would launch a $20 million television campaign criticizing President Barack Obama's handling of the economy.

The ads, produced and financed by Crossroads GPS, will begin running Monday in 10 states, many of which are presidential battlegrounds.

Spokesman Jonathan Collegio said the group would spend $5 million initially on cable television nationwide and on broadcast TV in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, New Mexico, Nevada and Virginia. Crossroads will spend a total of $20 million on the campaign over two months, Collegio said.

The 30-second ad illustrates how unemployment, the national debt and gas prices have all gone up since Obama took office in January 2009. It also suggests the $850 billion federal stimulus plan failed, with Obama acknowledging there weren't as many "shovel ready" infrastructure projects to fund with stimulus dollars as the administration had originally hoped.

"It's time to take away Obama's blank check," the announcer says.

The campaign represents Crossroads' first major national effort to shape the political debate in Washington, Crossroads GPS is an affiliate of American Crossroads, a Republican-leaning group with ties to Karl Rove,  President George W. Bush's former top political adviser. Together, the groups spent more than $38 million to defeat Democrats in the 2010 midterm elections ...

Here's one of the Crossroads GPS' ads:



OK, now there's the kicker: Lefties are going to be frothing at the mouth hearing that Crossroads GPS is tied to "Dr. Evil" Karl Rove.  I'm laughing already!! You know the Dems officially have their panties in a wad with that little tidbit o' info! 

Already, a group has formed to launch a counterstrike (here are excerpts from Tom Hamburger's report at The LA Times):

Rove-backed group belittles Democratic counterpunch

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Wednesday morning, the Democratic-oriented group that sees itself as countering Crossroads--Priorities USA--announced their plan to buy more than $700,000 in advertising responding to the attack.

"We are Americans. We know right from wrong. And we know the ads blaming President Obama for the economy are politics at its worst," according to a script released by Priorities USA. "The Republican have opposed economic reforms at every turn. And now they have a plan that would essentially end Medicare for future retirees, slash education, while giving huge tax breaks to big oil and the wealthy. We can't rebuild America if they tear down the middle class."

Priorities USA Action is led by former Obama White House staffers Bill Burton and Sean Sweeney and they promised that more is to come.

Their latest salvo produced  eye-rolling at the Crossroads headquarters.

"Not only is the buy less than 20% of the Crossroads buy, but the messaging is goofy," says Jonathan Collegio, spokesman for Crossroads.

"Crossroads hits the president over his handling of the economy, and their response is that it's dirty politics to talk about the economy," Collegio said. "In addition to the initial $5 million buy, Crossroads plans to spend $20 million this summer advertising on television and on the web.

An official from Priorities USA kicked back with this: "We never expected we would be able to match Karl Rove dollar-for-dollar but we have a smarter advertising strategy and are running more effective ads. For example, our buy is far more efficient in that we are more focused on markets that speak directly to swing voters in swing states. And, as you know, we just formed a couple months ago but will be ramping up our activity especially as we get closer to the end of this year."

Here's one of Priorities USA's ads:



Let the mudslinging begin!!!!