“It’s easy to take the high road when you helped build the low road.”
That’s the conclusion drawn by The Daily Beast as Republican candidate Newt Gingrich asks that the film that shows Mitt Romney as a corporate takeover artist and job killer be edited to fix errors or be removed entirely.
Gingrich, who bitterly complained about Romney super PAC ads that trashed the former speaker, is learning that it’s not so easy to force a super PAC to get with the program. The film, which covers Romney’s time at the private equity firm Bain Capital, was made by the pro-Gingrich super PAC Winning Our Future, whose members say that they’ll only alter the film if Mitt addresses some of their questions, according to The Daily Beast.
The unrelenting nature of the film and its errors have pushed many to ask Gingrich to denounce it. It also questions the power of super PACS, who sometimes run as many ads per day as the candidate committee they support.
Gingrich’s super PAC will release two more ads in South Carolina today. “Unelectable” labels Romney a moderate RINO (Republican in Name Only), and “Questionable” says that Romney uses “fuzzy math” when claiming that he created 100,000 jobs while at Bain.
What’s fascinating – and so telling of 2012 politics — when you can say anything and hope the damage is done before the truth comes out — is that people in the South Carolina town cast as a Romney victim of corporate raider tactics doesn’t hold a grudge at all against Bain.
(See the next post for details.)
