other guy s back or front. newt said attack ads helped knock him to a fourth place finish last night in iowa. romney squeaking to victory over senator santorum. santorum picking up congresswoman michele bachmann suspending her campaign today. but back to the ads and also keeping them honest, how clean are speaker gingrich s hands or rick perry s or anyone else s. in his concession speech last night from beginning to end, gingrich praised iowans who ignored attack ads. they really wanted to get to the truth rather than the latest 30-second distortion. i would not have survived in this campaign against millions and millions of dollars of negative advertising. if it weren t for the thousands of volunteers who showed up and who helped us in every town and in every precinct, and every one of us that are members, what made part of these negative ads so shameful, every one of us should remember, this process survives because young men and women risk their lives to allow us to do
keeping them honest, how clean are are speaker gingrich s hands or rick per yis or anyone else s? we ll start with the concession speech speaker gingrich praised iowans who ignored the attack ads. they would listen and they really wanted to get to the truth rather than the latest 30-second distortion. i would not have survived in this campaign against millions and millions of dollars in negative advertising if it wasn t for the thousands of volunteers who showed up and who helped us in every town and in every precinct. it s part of what made these negative ads so shameful. every one of us should remember, this process survives because young men and women risk their lives to allow us to do this. speaker gingrich last night. now here s a sampling of ads that ran all over iowa in the last few weeks. newt has more baggage than the airlines. newt gingrich supports amnesty for millions of illegals. gingrich was fined $300,000 for ethics violations. whatever you think of
they would like to keep talking about the republican kill medicare plan every day between now and november 2012. is there a unified counterstrategy from the republicans, do the republicans want to talk about killing medicare, or do they not want to talk about it? it depends on which republicans. that s the problem. they do not have a unified strategy. the republican establishment realizes the political pros who are adding up the numbers realize this isn t working for us. we need to back off. we need to change the subject. but paul ryan doesn t want to change the subject. he believes in this in is this is the way the world ought to work kind of way. i don t think he s going to shut up about it and it s going to hurt republicans. while i have you here, gene, i have to ask you about how this issue fit into the crop of republican presidential candidates. we have mike huckabee and the real estate guy whose name i m tired of saying officially bowing out of the race.
about the republican kill medicare plan every day between now and november 2012. is there a unified counterstrategy from the republicans, do the republicans want to talk about killing medicare, or do they not want to talk about it? it depends on which republicans. that s the problem. they do not have a unified strategy. the republican establishment realizes the political pros who are adding up the numbers realize this isn t working for us. we need to back off. we need to change the subject. but paul ryan doesn t want to change the subject. he believes in this in is this is the way the world ought to work kind of way. i don t think he s going to shut up about it and it s going to hurt republicans. while i have you here, gene, i have to ask you about how this issue fit into the crop of republican presidential candidates. we have mike huckabee and the real estate guy whose name i m
they would like to keep talking about the republican kill medicare plan every day between now and november 2012. is there a unified counterstrategy from the republicans, do the republicans want to talk about killing medicare, or do they not want to talk about it? it depends on which republicans. that s the problem. they do not have a unified strategy. the republican establishment realizes the political pros who are adding up the numbers realize this isn t working for us. we need to back off. we need to change the subject. but paul ryan doesn t want to change the subject. he believes in this in is this is the way the world ought to work kind of way. i don t think he s going to shut up about it and it s going to hurt republicans. while i have you here, gene, i have to ask you about how this issue fit into the crop of