they worry this billion dollars they were supposed to have is not going to show up. the issue is the president is weak with the voters, even though he s doing better than mitt romney. if they let this game go the way it s been going in the primaries, with republicans raising zillions of dollars to put these dirt ball ads on the air, if he has to face that, defenseless without the super pacs. they saw not only the amount of money the republicans are raising, but the tenor of the ads being funded by those. a lot of them are directed at president obama already. millions more will be spent. let s look at some of the ads that have run in the primary. the pro-romney super pac, restore our future, blanketed the air waves, destroying newt gingrich in iowa. let s watch it. ever notice how some people make a lot of mistakes? i made a mistake. i made mistakes at times. so far, newt gingrich has
he is a castroite. these ads can be nasty. i am shocked that people do negative campaigning. the obama administration knows something about negative campaigning. they did more negative ads against john mccain in the last election because they had all the money. why didn t it seem that way? it seemed he ran an upbeat campaign. he didn t do the commercials here in d.c. he ran them elsewhere. they are smart to try to get it off the idea of being pure. there s a little hypocrisy. i look at karl rove. something like $50 million in different checks he s been able to raise. some of it super pac, some nonfunded ngo money. the power of these guys to raise money, obama has to get into the money game. he has to get into the negative advertising game? they played the game in 2008. they ran ads. one of the reasons the president came off as positive is he spoke
shifted course. the white house announced they would give their blessing to the super pacs supporting the president s reelection, priorities usa. we have seen what kind of effect the super pacs have had in the campaign. tens of millions of dollars have been spent in the republican primaries to blanket the air waves. the white house said given that reality, they had no choice to get into the game. will it matter in the end? what effect will the super pacs have on the election this year? de de meyers was former press secretary for the president. and john feehery is with us as well. the bigger question is, there s a sense of panic in the obama administration. they have to start raising money. they have a super pac that s raised no money.
admitted his mistakes or flipped on teaming up with nancy pelosi, health care,raq, attacking mitt romney and more. i made a big mistake in the spring. haven t we had enough mistakes? that seems to work. another anti-newt ad put out. let s watch that one. newt gingrich s attacks are called foolish, out of bounds, and disgusting. he has more baggage than the airlines. newt was fined for ethics violations. took $1.6 million from freddie mac. and co-sponsored a bill with nancy pelosi that would have given $60 million a year to autopsy program supporting china s brutal one-child policy. don t be fooled by newt s desperate attacks. i have seen negative ads. they are pretty good. remember the one from castro? he had supported funding for the imf. some of that money had got on to castro.
or simply the effort of the government to provide state-of-the-art health care. let s get to that one up front tonight. plus, you can hear the charges of hypocrisy. opted out when he saw how much money he can raise privately now, after denouncing super pacs, the obama campaign is embracing them. is mr. obama violating a principle? yes. will he get lots of money to fight of republican attacks? yes, again. and will he lose any votes because of it? probably no. also colorado, missouri, and minnesota hold contests tonight in the republican race for president. the big question tonight, can rick santorum pick off a state or two? maybe win two and give the romney campaign a new headache it doesn t need. and a big victory for supporters of gay marriage today. a federal appeals court, the ninth, in california has struck down the gay marriage ban in california known as prop 8. it s a narrow ruling and the case is likely to wind up in the supreme court. let me finish with the conflict bet