A Preview of Obama's Attack on Romney? Plus - Rove warns Republicans Obama's message is working

[Pirate Smile]

A Preview of Obama's Attack on Romney?

Priorities USA, an outside group formed to support President Obama's re-election campaign, released a new ad attacking Mitt Romney over his wealth and taxes.

Andrew Sullivan: "I'm a little taken aback by the personal brazenness of this. It's far more populist than Obama's previous campaign. In fact, it reminds me of the kind of brutal ads Republicans tend to deploy."

Greg Sargent: "Dems are currently experimenting with how far to go in attacking Romney over his wealth and tax rate. The Obama campaign itself has not been willing to go here yet, preferring instead to leave this attack line to the DNC and outside allies."

Here's the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RYIx-OmD-0w

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/10/21/a_preview_of_obamas_attack_on_romney.html#044221a

AND

Rove is telling Republicans that Pres. Obama's message is working:

American Crossroads: Obama’s ‘Class Warfare’ Message Is Working



American Crossroads, the big money GOP group founded by Karl Rove, is warning Republicans that President Obama’s new campaign to raise taxes on millionaires is a political winner.
Under the header “Obama’s New Class Warfare May Resonate,” the group’s director, Steven Law, cited their own polling data in a strategy memo to argue that the White House was gaining ground with its proposal to raise taxes on the wealthy.

“It may be the result of larger environmental conditions, or he may be moving the needle himself, but Obama’s ‘tax the rich’ mantra is getting traction,” Law wrote. “Our poll found that 64% favor raising taxes on people with incomes above $200,000.”

He added that Obama was winning over Americans on the issue even as their poll showed 47% of respondents concerned that increasing taxes would hurt the economy.
“People are sensitive to the economic consequences of class warfare taxation - but right now, they split evenly between their concern about jobs and Obama’s class warfare agitation,” according to the memo.

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“Because President Obama continues to possess substantial personal popularity - not to mention the massive communications apparatus of the White House - our messaging on the President’s latest stimulus must be sharp, focused and sustained,” he wrote. “The public is open to being convinced by either side on the best way to revitalize our economy; therefore, proponents of real private sector growth and fiscal responsibility need to challenge Obama’s plan in detail - or risk losing what is likely to be a prolonged debate on this issue”

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/karl-rove-group-obamas-class-warfare-message-is-working.php?ref=fpb

[Guilded Lilly]

1. It's working because it is true.

Republican Greed machines and their hideous representstives in Congress continue to dig their own graves. Keep supplying the shovels!

[Tarheel_Dem]

2. +1

[jenmito]

3. Awww...

poor chubby baby! (Rove, of course.)

[ClarkUSA]

4. Rove should be blubbering. His beloved Romney will be eviscerated by Team Obama using the TRUTH.

[Wait Wut]

5. Tee...hee...hee...

Our President will just have to do some light sweeping up after the GOP "candidates" are through with each other. :)

[Merlot]

6. I can't look at rovian without seeing canned ham!

Thanks Stephen Colbert!

[Worship Money]

7. Rovey thinks he's so smart

And Machiavellian. Dude, you're a parody of yourself.

Fuck off, you goddamn criminal. You're done.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

8. keep it up O. say it over and over and over and over until it becomes

a universally accepted truth.