By Alan Lytle
Lexington, KY – Washington-based Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies is being advised by Republican masterminds Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie. The ad in question, being shown in Lexington and other Kentucky cities, chides Conway, Kentucky's attorney general, for siding with President Barack Obama in endorsing health care reforms and refusing to join 13 other attorneys general who oppose them. Conway accuses his opponent Republican Rand Paul, a self-described tea party outsider, of selling out to GOP insiders.
"Well listen, the healthcare bill's not perfect, but we've got over 600-thousand Kentuckians who will get health insurance for the first time. So, what's going on here is that Rand Paul's campaign is falling apart. He's been running now for over a year against the Washington establishment; and now you've got Karl Rove, who is the epitome of the Washington establishment coming in here now and raising money undisclosed from the big fat cats in Washington to try to aid Rand Paul's candidacy which is falling apart. So that's what you have going on here."
Conway made those comments following a rally at the candidate's new headquarters in Lexington.
Rand Paul's name is not mentioned in the ad but the Crossroads group has pledged to raise $50 million to help GOP candidates this year, and has already spent more than $3 million airing ads against key Democrats including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Polls continue to show Paul leading Conway, but the margin is narrowing, in the race to succeed Republican Jim Bunning.