Super Pac Founded by Karl Rove Targets Elizabeth Warren with Attack Ads

Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies (GPS), an organization that Karl Rove founded with Ed Gillespie, is spending nearly $600,000 on ads targeting Massachusetts Senate Candidate Elizabeth Warren over her support for the Occupy Movement. From the Boston Herald:

“Fourteen million out of work, but instead of focusing on jobs, Elizabeth Warren sides with extreme left protests,” a voiceover says in the ad as text identifies Warren as “professor.”

The 30-second ad released by the conservative group Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies comes after League of Conservation Voters launched their own television campaign blasting Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown for backing “big oil.”

The ad blasts the conditions surrounding the Occupy movement’s protests.

“At Occupy Wall Street protestors attack police, do drugs and trash public parks. They support radical redistribution of wealth and violence,” the voiceover says. “But Warren boasts, ‘I created much on the intellectual foundation for what they do.’ ”

The ad ends stating, “We need jobs not intellectual theories and radical protests.”

Here is what Elizabeth Warren actually said in an interview with The Daily Beast last month:

TDB: I’m curious: Is there something that is keeping you away from this movement? Is there a reason why you haven’t embraced it?

EW: Look, everybody has to follow the law. That’s the starting point. I’ve been fighting this fight for years and years now. As I see it, this is about two central points: one, this is about the lack of accountability. That Wall Street has not been held accountable for how they broke the economy. The second is a values question, a fundamental fairness around the way that markets have been distorted and families have been hurt. I’m still fighting that fight. I’m just fighting it from this angle. I’m fighting it from … I want to fight it from the floor of the United States Senate. I think that is a place to make this difference.

TDB: Is showing solidarity with them going to get in the way of that?

EW: It’s not a question of solidarity. I just don’t think that’s the right way to say it. I support what they do. I want to say this in a way that doesn’t sound puffy. I created much of the intellectual foundation for what they do. That’s the right thing. There has to be multiple ways for people to get involved and take back our country. The fight that I’m fighting now is one that is directed towards the United State Senate. That’s just how I see it.

I found out about the huge ad buy in an e-mail from Warren’s new campaign manager Mindy Meyers.

A former chief of staff to Sen. [Sheldon] Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Myers managed Whitehouse’s first campaign, as well as successful 2010 campaign of Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.). She also worked for President Bill Clinton’s administration and advised Al Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign.

“Mindy’s leadership, political savvy and strong organizing skills, along with her experience winning tough races, makes her the perfect choice to lead this campaign,” Warren said in a statement.

All I have to say is, Go, Elizabeth, Go!!