the fact is he tends to do it himself, which hasn t helped him over the years. but he has a super pac. and not only that, but his super pac, the spokesman for his super pac is his long-time spokesman, rick tyler. so everything he said about the romney pac is in fact true for him. and the truth is that those of us who actually agreed with the supreme court decision, because of the first amendment and all that stuff, the fact is that everybody s got a chance to build their own super pac. my guess is that it was somebody from a super pac that called that called governor perry today. and that was the enlightenment that he got. they said we ll raise you 5 million bucks. but everybody can do this. and newt understands that this is not the girl scout cookie drive. this is big-time politics. he s been engaged in this for 30 years. he knows what s involved. and he ought to just kind of let it roll off his back. the problem with newt is he can t laugh at himself. if he could laugh at himself h
scrapingly mean when he s after somebody than newt gingrich. the fact is he tends to do it himself which hasn t helped him over the years. but his super pack pag, the spokesman for his super pac is his longtime rick tyler. the truth is those of us who actually agreed with the supreme court decision, because the first amendment and all that stuff. the fact is, everybody s got a chance to build their own super pac. my guess is it was somebody from a super pac that called governor perry today. and that was the enlightenment that he got. everybody can do this. and newt understands that this is not the girl scout cookie drive. this is big-time politics. he s been engaged in this for 30 years. he knows what s involved. and he ought to let it roll off his back. the problem with newt is he can t laugh at himself. mary, i know you like him.
and newt understands that this is not the girl scout cookie drive. this is big-time politics. he s been engaged in this for 30 years. he knows what s involved. and he ought to let it roll off his back. the problem with newt is he can t laugh at himself. if he could laugh at himself, he d be far better off and a far better leader, by the way. mary, i know you like him. you respect him, as many do. can he turn things around at this point? well, he can, and will, and has vowed to continue to make an impact. what he has done is strange in that he s relinquished a winning strategy of being the most knowledgeable conservative for a losing strategy, which is to be the most positive candidate. one. that s a process, not a substance issue. republicans want a substance. two, he is dramatically and directly undermining that strategy by vowing to rip off mitt romney s face. and three, there s no su thing, everybody promises to do positive campaigns. nobody ever does them, because
but back to the ads and also keeping them honest, how clean are speaker gingrich s hands or rick perry or anyone else s. in his concession speech last night from beginning to end, speaker gingrich ignored the 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 and women risk their lives to allow us to do this. now here s a sampling of the ads that ran all over iowa in the last few weeks. has more baggage than the airlines. newt gingrich supports amnesty for millions of illegals. he was fined $300,000 for ethics violations. whatever you think of them
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