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
and if the truth seems negative, that may be more a comment on his record than it is on politics. keeping them honest, just like governor romney, gingrich has a super pac right behind him. there s a minute-long ad called the 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 pac should be eliminated entirely, but no one seems eager to unilaterally disarm. every major candidate is associated with one. the one poring rick perry is called make us great again. rick santorum s backers are called the red, white and blue fund. a super pac supporting president obama 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, mary matalin, rich
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