Democrats Target Karl Rove-Linked 'New Majority Agenda' In Ad Campaign

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is launching an online video Wednesday in hopes of pushing back against growing, multimillion-dollar ad campaigns funded by the Karl Rove-affiliated Crossroads GPS and American Crossroads.

The keystone of the Crossroads GPS push is an effort called the "New Majority Agenda" -- reportedly funded to the tune of $10 million -- around which the outfit is spending millions on TV ads.

ProPublica estimated the "dark money" group, which doesn't disclose its donors, has dropped more than $40 million on television spots in this election. And Crossroads has announced ads costing $4.7 million more Wednesday.

The DSCC campaign aims to draw attention to the source of Crossroads' money, and to what those secret donors want to buy -- which, the DSCC claims, is protection for millionaires and billionaires, deregulation and radical changes to Social Security and Medicare.

"Voters need to know that no matter what Republicans say on the stump, this will be their agenda in the Senate," said DSCC spokesman Matt Canter. "It is time to hold Republican candidates accountable for Karl Rove's so-called 'New Majority Agenda,' which would gut Social Security and Medicare in order to pay for more tax breaks for billionaires and Big Oil."

Watch the DSCC video above.

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Comments

[planethike]

12:23 AM on 08/27/2012

I live in Montana, which is currently undergoing a brutal Senatorial Campaign, and I have yet to see this ad aired, even though every other commercial is a campaign commercial. They need to show it more, its great to explain to people who this New Majority Agenda is.

[Got2Go]

08:33 AM on 08/16/2012

Is this guy Karl Rove related to Rush Limbaugh, the resemblance is very strong.

[Marysdude]

08:06 AM on 08/16/2012

This is just the 'other' pincer.

First break ACORN, the one best chance for disenfranchised folks to be able to vote. Then get ALEX involved in writing laws in red states to disenfranchise more folks who might vote left, thus freeing the way for TeaPublicans to rip off local and state elections.

Second use big money from the Oligarchy to disenfranchise the Party of Democrats, and use every ugly trick in the political book to unelect a president. When that move falls short, get more and More and MORE money from the Oligarchy to defeat that president in the national election.

Those with money are cheating us out of our freedom, our Constitution our country, and doing it right under our noses.

[Dopster]

12:57 PM on 08/27/2012

ALEC

[Marysdude]

01:08 PM on 08/27/2012

Yeah, don't tell Trebek I blamed all this mayhem on him.

[Antineanderthal]

07:22 AM on 08/16/2012

Rove and his ilk care only about power. They will say or claim ANYTHING to get into power and obliterate all social and health programs, lower the minimum wage, devastate public education and create a "you-are-on-your-own" society. All this to insure that the richest in this country stay the richest and everyone else is ignorant and poor.

That is the Republican-TeaParty agenda.

[Thinking Conservative]

07:18 AM on 08/16/2012

Did rove ever star in Porky the Pig cartoons?

[lindabear]

08:30 AM on 08/16/2012

He is Porky Pig!

[Thinking Conservative]

07:17 AM on 08/16/2012

Ah, deeta, deeta, that's all folks !

[allen bupp]

03:01 AM on 08/16/2012

"The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is launching an online video Wednesday..."

Oh boy! A f#rt in a windstorm.....

What is NEEDED is a nice ad blitz. How about this?:
(patriotic music plays while a flag waves)
Karl Rove, widely credited as the architect of the lies that led us into the Iraq war, is at it again. Mr Rove and a shadowy group of billionaires hope to one again mislead the American people with exaggerations and distortions all the while hiding behind patriotic sounding shell organizations with names like "Crossroads", "Americans for Prosperity", and "New Majority Agenda"

Make a stand for truth today and tell Mr Rove that your not buying it at: MyCountryIsn'tForSale.org .

[MansomeHan]

02:59 AM on 08/16/2012

Gullible. Do you Rubes really think those Individualist billionaires are on your side? Do you really think they have anything in common with you? Do you really think God sent them to protect your way of thinking? Do you really think they care anything about you or your wedge issues? The are in it for themselves, and could care less about "you people."

[obamathegreat235]

01:59 AM on 08/16/2012

Democrats Target Karl Rove-Linked 'New Majority Agenda' In Ad Campaign"---Actually Rove should by all forces of America should be targeted literally and bust his as. wide open for the horrible infractions he has done and is trying to do to America.

[kennethmw]

10:33 PM on 08/15/2012

Do any of you ever wonder if repugnicants started saying "The sun comes up in the West, the sun comes up in the West", some of our fellow posters would start saying, " I'm going out West to New York"!! It's a shame.

[WhatWereTheyThinking]

10:20 PM on 08/15/2012

Peeling Mr. PotatoHead

[newpoliticaljunkie]

08:46 PM on 08/15/2012

Better late than never.....I really didn't want to see Rove as President in 2012.

[Gestas]

08:40 PM on 08/15/2012

Karl,,I really miss your GOP Talking Points...For eight long years I started every day knowing what the Crazies down at the Truck Stop would be raving about the rest of the day...at lest in your days you believed that if a lie is told enough times it will become the truth...A lie told 100 times a day...Now this bunch tells 100 lies and none of them have a chance at becoming the truth...

[Catch 22]

08:38 PM on 08/15/2012

This is a very good strategy, and I am somewhat surprised that it took so long to be enacted. It is important to keep in mind that immediately after the election of this President, it is known that Karl Rove, Newt Gingrich were present at a meeting where a decision was made to oppose anything that Obama proposed, even if they had originally proposed the same thing, or even if it was in the best interest of the country. This strategy could ONLY work, if they believe that the electorate is so stupid, or blinded by hate that they forget or ignore that this was done. The truth is that they have had somme partial success, which should cause us to examine ourselves, and wonder exactly what are the motives of these people, and exactly what they think of us.

[disappointedliberal]

06:57 PM on 08/15/2012

I think wealthy conservatives will waste billions supporting Romney this year. I think that Romney is just too flawed. The millions spent on congressional and state races, however, will have a huge impact. Most people don't know who their congressmen or congresswomen are or who their challengers are. Millions spent on a TP candidate can change that and give that TP the edge. Unless the dems retake the house (possible) and either take 60 seats in the senate or change the filibuster rules, Obama is going to face another four years of GOP obstructionism.

[dsb1252]

07:28 PM on 08/15/2012

And the American people are the victims.

[Labor Party]

09:57 PM on 08/15/2012

If they support extreme conservative agendas.