minute-long ad called two mitts slamming mitt romney. a second pro-gingrich super pac called strong america now, also sent out mailers in iowa calling governor romney, quote, the second most dangerous man in america. both romney and gingrich have said the super pacs should be eliminated entirely, but no one seems eager to unilaterally disarm. every major candidate is associated with one. the one supporting rick perry is called make us great again. rick santorum s backers are called the red, white and blue fund. there s a super pac supporting president obama, of course, as well. all of it now with the supreme court s blessing. let s talk about the raw politics and what s happening on the campaign trail today with our panel. republican strategist mary matalin. gop strategist rich galen. and cornel belcher, a pollster for the obama 2012 campaign and was in 2008 as well. rich, does newt gingrich have a problem with super pacs or just hostile super pacs who have a lot more money than hi
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.
gailen, and cornell belcher, a pollster for the obama 2012 campaign and was in 200 as well. does newt just have a problem with the super pacs that have more money than his super pacs do? look, nobody can be more 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 he has a super pac. not only that, the superer pack, the spokesman for his super pac, is his longtime spokesman, rick tyl tyler. everything he said about the romney pack is true for him. 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, that everybody s got a chance to bill 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. they said we ll raise you $5 million. everybody can do this.
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