As you can tell from the ads on T.V., Karl Rove and his Wall Street Allies are going to do or say anything to try and stop Elizabeth. They may have millions but Elizabeth has two things money can’t buy: You and the truth.
Here are a few key talking points to help you counter these ridiculous attacks:
Elizabeth was an outspoken critic of a no-strings attached bailout (TARP) for Wall Street.
Elizabeth was asked to serve on the Congressional Oversight Panel and was charged with helping to hold the government and the banks accountable for how TARP money was distributed and spent. She consistently criticized the Bush administration (and later the Obama administration) for failing to hold the banks accountable and failing to put safeguards in place to ensure that the banks used the funds to loosen up the credit market—instead of on big bonuses for top executives.
Rove’s ad has been widely criticized for being dishonest and inaccurate.
The attack ad has been called “full of absurd distortions,” (Brian McGrory, The Boston Globe, 12/9/11); “one of the most disingenuous and inaccurate ads of the 2012 cycle,” (Ari Berman, The Nation, 12/8/11); that “twists Elizabeth Warren’s role as a Congressionally-appointed watchdog,” (ABC News)
Elizabeth was named one of the “new sheriffs of Wall Street” by Time Magazine and was named Bostonian of the Year by the Boston Globe for bringing “a sense of sanity to the economic crisis.”
“It seemed as if the banks and other firms got a $700 billion bonanza and the American taxpayer got the shaft. But along came this straight-shooting Harvard professor to oversee the bailout, someone who pledged to look out for the middle class and brought a sense of sanity to the economic crisis. For this we give her our top honors this year.” (The Boston Globe 12/20/09)
Rove himself supported the bailout and never supported any measures to hold Wall Street accountable.
Rove said, “…if we let the banks fail the rest of the economy will fail, which is why everybody agreed let's just step in and save our financial system, our credit markets.” (Fox News, 12/05/08)
Below, please find two links that help debunk Rove’s smears:
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/video/29955629/detail.html
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2011/12/09/reason-change-channel/4LNVGgrFPn6sOf96Cf8tJN/story.html