A Super PAC supporting Newt Gingrich is airing radio advertisements in North Carolina attacking Mitt Romney -- an indication that the protracted GOP presidential contest may extend deep into the primary calendar.
According to The Wall Street Journal, the political action committee is spending $170,000 to air the ads on conservative talk radio stations. The message: don't fall for the "moderate" candidate pushed by the GOP establishment.
The Winning Our Future committee, a so-called Super PAC because it can accept unlimited contributions and spend unlimited sums to promote or disparage candidates. The ads also are running in Arizona and Ohio, as well as syndicated national radio programs.
The Journal describes the effort: "The ads, even the two labeled “positive,” don’t waste any time getting to their point.“The establishment wants us to hold our noses and nominate their moderate candidate,” says a male narrator in the long version of one ad. “We’ve been down this road before. They gave us Bob Dole, and we got …” At that point, the listener hears the sounds of a bad car crash. “They gave us John McCain and we got” another crash.
“Now they’re giving us Mitt Romney?” It continues: “The establishment doesn’t believe what we believe. They think they control the Republican Party.” But the narrator says, “There are more of us than there are of them.”
North Carolina Republicans don't vote until May 8 but Gingrich's campaign made early in roads in the Tar Heel state in case the contest for delegates goes late into the calendar.
--John Frank
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Is Newt still in the race?
February 16, 2012 - 1:07pm — bestsarahIs Newt still in the race?