Rove ads attack Elizabeth Warren for being a "college professor" and an "intellectual"..

[kentuck]

Egads! What next? She's smarter than everyone else running?? Also, she's attractive. She's smart and attractive. What else do you need to know to vote against her?
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http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/11/rove-group-ad-attacks-professor-elizabeth-warren-and-her-intellectual-theories.php?ref=fpb

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The anti-Warren ad takes up the state GOP’s running theme of tying her in an unseemly fashion to the Occupy Wall Street protests. As this new Crossroads ad puts it, Warren is a nefarious college professor and intellectual, too!

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“Fourteen million Americans out of work. But instead of focusing on jobs, Elizabeth Warren sides with extreme left protests at Occupy Wall Street,” the announcer says — with the on-screen text calling her “Professor Elizabeth Warren,” in a split-screen with the protesters.

“Protesters attack police, do drugs, and trash public parks. They support radical redistribution of wealth, and violence. But Warren boasts, ‘I created much of the intellectual foundation for what they do’; ‘I support what they do.’ Intellectual foundation for what? We need jobs — not intellectual theories and radical protests.”

[LeftishBrit]

1. So being intelligent is a bad thing to Republicans?

I suppose that was obvious.

'We need jobs' - then why are Republicans so much in favour of government cuts that will obviously mean fewer jobs?

[dtexdem]

18. Not just a bad thing, an impossible thing.

;-)

[peace frog]

2. Virtues are Vices to the GOP

War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength

[liberal N proud]

3. This country has a serious illness

It's called Right Wing Fever and it is killing the country!

[HopeHoops]

4. Yeah, fuck educated people - they're too smart to vote for Republicans.

[Deep13]

5. Smart, popular, and she gives a shit. R.s hate that.

[Enrique]

6. she wears glasses!

here's the proof! Elizabeth "four-eyes" Warren!

[kentuck]

8. OMG! You're right!

How can anyone with poor vision be a US Senator? I hear that she dresses well and is well-read on the issues of the day. How many more things do we need to know to disqualify her from running for such a high, esteemed office?

[monmouth]

13. The President really likes her...n/t

[CTyankee]

21. I hear that her sister is a THESPIAN! Really!

[SpiralHawk]

7. The Cons are against women and intelligence

no wonder EW makes them quake in their diapers.

[socialist_n_TN]

9. To me this is the interesting thing about politics in the USA

BOTH parties spend a LOT of their time fighting the last war. Neither party recognizes that the electorate has changed on them until they're forced to. Which leads the Dems to "triangulation" and the Reps to "pointy headed liberal" attack ads.

So now these DLC type proponents of fighting the last war, will worry about the Rovian and Republican attacks on Warren for being a "socialist college professor" and urge her to "triangulate". I hope she doesn't back off. I think that the country's mood has changed and she doesn't need to.

[DirkGently]

20. I think that's extremely astute. Clintonian triangulation & Gringrich(ian?) lib bashing are dead.

But apparently neither Dems on the one hand nor Republicans on the other can grasp that.

[socialist_n_TN]

22. Yep. I've noticed this since '05 or so.......

BOTH sides are using the same strategies and tactics that they used in the 90s rather than face up to the issue polls that show the landscape has changed. I blame the Dems more than the Reps for this. The Republicans have NEVER had much more than divisive politics all the way back to Nixon (and really Goldwater). But when the landscape changed in the Dem's favor they didn't go for it. They fell back into the 90s strategies and have almost been left out in the cold.

This fighting the last war strategy is also why you've seen a rapid yo-yoing in the public voting patterns, not just here but worldwide. When NEITHER party give the people what they want, they will keep changing the players each cycle until someone DOES give them what they want. Or until they get disgusted with the whole mess and take extra electoral remedies.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

10. Oh the horror!

Having educated and intellectual people in government is EVIL I tell you, EVIL!!!!!

:sarcasm:

[lame54]

11. send it to Colbert

[Frustratedlady]

12. The obstructionists are accusing her of not concentrating on new jobs?

She's too intellectual?

I suppose anyone who uses words longer than 6 letters WOULD be intellectual to them.

She must really have them running scared.

Go, Elizabeth!!! What a sweetie.

[Orsino]

14. Jesus was an unemployed, suicidal hippie who gave away free health care. n/t

[CanonRay]

15. Oh my heavens, a candidate with a brain?

How horrible! :sarcasm:

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

16. "She has a brain - that's something we eat, not something we have"

"You don't elect dinner to public office."

[stillwaiting]

17. Rove and company must absolutely have NO respect for the working class base of his party.

Can you even imagine how Rove and the other party apparatchiks belittle their base behind very, very, VERY closed doors?

I damn well know that Rove personally wouldn't be swayed by such ridiculous anti-intellectualism when forming his own opinions and conclusions on matters.

It's so crass that he uses it to such good effect on his base.

All we need in a Pretzeldent is someone we want to have a beer with and is just like ME, right Rove? Frightening.

[Voice for Peace]

19. "Protesters attack police, do drugs, and trash public parks."

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[Downwinder]

23. How come I never saw any Rove ads attacking

Phill Gramm?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

24. They called Adlai Stevenson an "egghead" in the 1950s.

This is nothing new.

Adlai was honest and intellectual -- no way to have a career in politics with those qualifications.

[LeftishBrit]

25. I once read that Stevenson was told, 'Every thinking person is going to vote for you'

and that he replied, 'That's not enough. I need a majority.'

[Octafish]

26. Smart people sniff out crooks.

For Rove and his masters, that's a problem.

[Canuckistanian]

27. Newt Gingrich was a college professor

Although nobody ever accused him of being an intellectual.

[Tom Ripley]

28. Says dropout Rove

[Citizen Worker]

29. Anti-intellectualism runs deep in the land of the free and home of the brave. During the 1988

presidential election GHW Bush, with scorn dripping from his tongue, announced that he, Michael Dukakis, graduated from Harvaaard, and the electorate ate it up. Of course, he left out of that announcement that he had graduated from Yale.

[nadinbrzezinski]

30. I have been attacked for being an intellectual here

as well, It plays well with the base and the anti intellectual masses.