Pro-Romney Super-PAC’s New Ad: Newt = Obama

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.


The pro-Romney super-PAC Restore Our Future, run by a trio of former Romney aides, is out with a new attack on flailing GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich.

The super-PAC’s “factual comparison” (its own description) attempts to show how Gingrich, the former House speaker, “has so much in common” with President Obama, and that the two men repeatedly “have stood on the wrong sides of issues,” in the words of Restore Our Future treasurer Charles Spies. The ad will appear on Monday in the New Hampshire Union Leader and The State newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina—prominent publications in states hosting the next two presidential primaries.

Restore Our Future spent $4.6 million on advertising in Iowa, most of it attacking Gingrich, who had briefly climbed in the polls. The ads pulled no punches, and almost immediately Gingrich’s support crumbled in the Hawkeye State. He ended up finishing a distant fourth in Iowa’s GOP caucuses; Romney won by eight votes. Gingrich has lashed out at Romney for the barrage of negative ads lobbed by Restore Our Future. Earlier this week, he called Romney a “liar” for saying he knew nothing about the attack ads, and, on the evening of the primary, Gingrich strongly implied that his campaign was about to go scorched earth on Team Romney. This surely isn’t going to help. 

Here’s the ad:

 

AN IMPORTANT UPDATE

We’re falling behind our online fundraising goals and we can’t sustain coming up short on donations month after month. Perhaps you’ve heard? It is impossibly hard in the news business right now, with layoffs intensifying and fancy new startups and funding going kaput.

The crisis facing journalism and democracy isn’t going away anytime soon. And neither is Mother Jones, our readers, or our unique way of doing in-depth reporting that exists to bring about change.

Which is exactly why, despite the challenges we face, we just took a big gulp and joined forces with the Center for Investigative Reporting, a team of ace journalists who create the amazing podcast and public radio show Reveal.

If you can part with even just a few bucks, please help us pick up the pace of donations. We simply can’t afford to keep falling behind on our fundraising targets month after month.

Editor-in-Chief Clara Jeffery said it well to our team recently, and that team 100 percent includes readers like you who make it all possible: “This is a year to prove that we can pull off this merger, grow our audiences and impact, attract more funding and keep growing. More broadly, it’s a year when the very future of both journalism and democracy is on the line. We have to go for every important story, every reader/listener/viewer, and leave it all on the field. I’m very proud of all the hard work that’s gotten us to this moment, and confident that we can meet it.”

Let’s do this. If you can right now, please support Mother Jones and investigative journalism with an urgently needed donation today.

payment methods

AN IMPORTANT UPDATE

We’re falling behind our online fundraising goals and we can’t sustain coming up short on donations month after month. Perhaps you’ve heard? It is impossibly hard in the news business right now, with layoffs intensifying and fancy new startups and funding going kaput.

The crisis facing journalism and democracy isn’t going away anytime soon. And neither is Mother Jones, our readers, or our unique way of doing in-depth reporting that exists to bring about change.

Which is exactly why, despite the challenges we face, we just took a big gulp and joined forces with the Center for Investigative Reporting, a team of ace journalists who create the amazing podcast and public radio show Reveal.

If you can part with even just a few bucks, please help us pick up the pace of donations. We simply can’t afford to keep falling behind on our fundraising targets month after month.

Editor-in-Chief Clara Jeffery said it well to our team recently, and that team 100 percent includes readers like you who make it all possible: “This is a year to prove that we can pull off this merger, grow our audiences and impact, attract more funding and keep growing. More broadly, it’s a year when the very future of both journalism and democracy is on the line. We have to go for every important story, every reader/listener/viewer, and leave it all on the field. I’m very proud of all the hard work that’s gotten us to this moment, and confident that we can meet it.”

Let’s do this. If you can right now, please support Mother Jones and investigative journalism with an urgently needed donation today.

payment methods

We Recommend

Latest

Sign up for our free newsletter

Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily to have our top stories delivered directly to your inbox.

Get our award-winning magazine

Save big on a full year of investigations, ideas, and insights.

Subscribe

Support our journalism

Help Mother Jones' reporters dig deep with a tax-deductible donation.

Donate