gingrich, basically supported that court decision. they thought it was free speech, money is speech, as they see it. and it could have destroyed his campaign. we don't know until we see the results, but he could come in fourth or fifth tonight, after this pummeling he took out here. >> there's a couple of things. those ads were devastatingly effective, but for a couple of reasons. they were reinforced by a similar attack coming from ron paul. and the other is, a lot of the charges in those ads, the truth stings. it wasn't like these were wild distortions. that was, in fact, a pretty fair critique of gingrich's history. it wasn't one of those situations where something is just taken whole cloth or distorted in a really powerful way. >> suppose the same amount of money was spent by a super pac on behalf of newt gingrich that basically strdestroyed romney a guy who supported taxpayer-funded abortions, you know, did the whole thing with health care up in massachusetts, was a moderate up there, and then said he's masquerading now as a conservative. would that have been as