completely wrong in that i think the biggest problem is the transparency issue and that he s contributing so much more to cross roads gps. if i could point out one of the great ironnys going on here, when romney talks about the great threats to america besides a second term for barack obama, a nuclear iran and what? the economic mite of china. where is sheldon adelson gotten all of his money from? coming here. i think that s suf a great irony. because of what the court decisions say, you can t really stop sheldon adelson from spending the money. but we should know with the internet, realtime reporting, when he gives $10 million to cross roads, we should know it the the day he does it. by the way, we just told everybody that.
this as a dry run for making wisconsin a swing state in the presidential race. politico is up with a quote this morning from the legendary packers coach vince lombardi. jim vandehei, pride of oshkosh, writes a story quoting lombardi as saying, show me a good loser and i ll show you a loser. so democrats should admit that this was a big loss. it gives republicans now an opportunity in wisconsin. i think wisconsin will wind up in obama s column. he won it by 15 points last time. but you have both the republican national committee and cross roads gps, the karl rove group, saying they are going to go in and spend big money. crossroads has big money to spend. so it will be a distraction, and a place that now the obama campaign is going to have to spend big. all right. let s look at the exit polls and touch on what harold was talking about, the results from wisconsin are also providing an unofficial preview to november s presidential election.
kids play basketball. i still do. even though things have changed. it s funny, they can t find jobs to get their career started, and i can t afford to retire. and now we re all living together again. i supported president obama because he spoke so beautifully. he promised change. but things changed for the worse. that was a huge ad by cross roads gps. i can t believe that lady aged like that. thanks, karl rove. that s a sad, sad story. and it s happening so often these days. the lying illusions they put in there like student loans and it s a good one. did you just say lying? they seem to be false, yeah. what seems to be false? you tell me. about what? well, in the last graph of the ad, you know, they insinuate that the president has been bad on dealing with young people and student loans.
are some of these that are constituted under the old rules of disclosure and some constituted under the new rules? it is all fall out from citizens united. but you ve got groups such as cross roads gps and then american cross roads. now these are sister groups. they ve said they re going to spend up to $300 million. it s got a lot of gop hea heavyweights behind it. you ve got cross roads gps had actually raised more money. and that s the dark money, 501 c 4 social welfare nonprofit group. social welfare. exactly. that is their primary purpose. and then they will give you a lot of evidence as that is exactly what they re doing. and then you ve got the super pack that has to disclose their donors. 501 (c-4 does do not have to diz close their donors. but you re not seeing that
and if you re young, you re thinking it is pretty cool that the guy can hang ten. okay, karen. mitt romney has to undo the damage brought during this nasty gop contest. or i want to suggest to you, does he just keep doing the same? or this time it s paid for by karl rove and it s targeted by the president. no doubt the romney campaign will rely on heavily on these outside groups including the ones funded or conceived, and funded with assistance from karl rove and ed gillespie. those groups, cross roads and cross roads gps are expected to spend $300 million mostly on hard hitting ads on president obama. that does allow mitt romney to pivot to the general election stout is part of it. an effort to humanize him. we saw additional efforts along