Rove’s New Game: Split Warren & Clinton - By Michael Tomasky

[DonViejo]

Michael Tomasky

A disingenuous Karl Rove-produced ad looks to hit Hillary with the (doctored) words of Elizabeth Warren. But why isn’t the latter speaking up?

So now, America’s most overrated political consultant has decided that the foundation that has handed out free AIDS medications to millions of Africans and done far more in a few years to reduce greenhouse gas emissions around the world than the Republican Party has in its entire history is Hillary Clinton’s great Achilles’ heel. I’ll admit that time might prove Karl Rove right, although I don’t really think so. More on that later.

But one thing Rove has accomplished with his new web ad that uses Elizabeth Warren’s words to attack Clinton is to show us that Warren, while she may not be running for president, is definitely out to maximize her leverage over the presumptive nominee. Here’s the story.

The ad, in case you’ve missed it, shows both Clintons posed for photos with various be-keffiyehed petro-garchs with flash cards announcing that the Clintons’ foundation has accepted millions from “foreign governments.” This is not illegal, and if the governments in question had been Iceland and Lichtenstein, the ad wouldn’t even exist. But they were the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, a “prominent backer of Hamas,” which has given the foundation “potentially millions.” Uh…potentially?

But here’s where the ad gets cute. There is a voice-over, a woman’s voice, which warns that “the power of well-funded special interests tilts our democracy away from the people and toward the powerful.” That voice, of course, is Warren’s. Boom!

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/25/rove-s-new-game-split-warren-clinton.html

[leftofcool]

1. That is the GOP strategy! Dems will fall for it!

[winter is coming]

2. Sounds like a golden opportunity for some anti-Koch brothers response ads.

Really, Republicans? You want to introduce the subject of well-funded special interests?

[Dawgs]

3. If only he would have tried splitting Obama and Hillary in 2008.

Maybe McCain would be President now.

Wait..

[UCmeNdc]

4. Run ads showing how much money Bush and other Republicans take from the same Arabs

Bush, Walker etc. all accepted money from United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, etc.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

5. Making sure to start a couple generations back and pointing out how

W and 'Jeb' started on third base thanks to money from Nazi Germany as well as Saudis, who comprised 17 of the 19 9/11 bombers iirc.

[FSogol]

6. K & R. n/t

[msanthrope]

7. Thankfully. ..no prolific OP writers on DU are falling for that! nt

[Kingofalldems]

8. He's got some Democrats doing his work for him.

I like both Hillary and Elizabeth. I suspect many more DUers feel the same.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. Useful idiots./NT

[SunSeeker]

10. Did Rove get the idea from reading GD posts on DU?

Or did those GD posters get the idea from Rove?

[misterhighwasted]

11. [phone].

They sure sound like they are spinning from the same playbook.