{"id":9263,"date":"2011-12-09T03:08:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T03:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/pro-romney-iowa-ads-hit-gingrich\/"},"modified":"2011-12-09T03:08:37","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T03:08:37","slug":"pro-romney-iowa-ads-hit-gingrich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/09\/pro-romney-iowa-ads-hit-gingrich\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Romney Iowa ads hit Gingrich"},"content":{"rendered":"

9 December 2011<\/span> Last updated at<\/span> 03:08 GMT<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"NewtNewt Gingrich now leads opinion polls by a wide margin in Iowa, South Carolina and Florida<\/span><\/div>\n

A group supporting Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is beginning a $3.1m (\u00a32m) ad campaign with an Iowa attack on chief rival and new front-runner Newt Gingrich.<\/p>\n

The campaign comes after key backers of Mr Romney called Mr Gingrich, a former House speaker, “irrational”.<\/p>\n

Mr Gingrich, campaigning in South Carolina, said his campaign was “focused on remaining positive”.<\/p>\n

Iowa voters will choose a Republican presidential nominee on 3 January 2012.<\/p>\n

The Gingrich attack video follows another advertisement, funded by the same political action committee, Restore Our Future, that focuses more on President Barack Obama<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Restore Our Future is largely made up of former aides of Mr Romney, the Associated Press reports.<\/p>\n

“Newt has a ton of baggage … And on the issues? Newt’s been on all sides,” the new ad says, according to AP.<\/p>\n

‘Irrational behaviour’<\/span><\/p>\n

Polls in several early voting states show Mr Gingrich significantly ahead, with less than month before the key Iowa vote.<\/p>\n

Polls from CNN\/Time<\/a> released on Wednesday indicated Mr Gingrich has a lead of 23 points in both South Carolina and Florida.<\/p>\n

Mr Gingrich is significantly ahead in Iowa as well, with less than month before the key caucus vote.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Missouri Senator Jim Talent and New Hampshire Governor John Sununu told reporters on a conference call that the former House speaker was not a “reliable and trusted” leader.<\/p>\n

The senior Republicans said Mr Gingrich had undermined the conservative agenda – citing his description earlier this year of Paul Ryan’s plan to reform Medicare as “right-wing social engineering”.<\/p>\n

They also said his “off-the-cuff” style of decision-making was not best suited to the job of president.<\/p>\n

Mr Talent said that Mr Gingrich could say “outrageous things that come from nowhere”.<\/p>\n

“And he has a tendency to say them at exactly the time when they most undermine the conservative agenda.”<\/p>\n

Mr Sununu said that as speaker of the House in the 1990s Mr Gingrich had shown a pattern of “anti-principled actions that really irritated his own leadership”, adding that his “irrational behaviour” would not be desirable in the White House.<\/p>\n

Correspondents say the head-on attack on a fellow candidate marks a shift in Mr Romney’s campaign strategy, indicating that he now sees Mr Gingrich as his principal rival.<\/p>\n

Mr Talent emphasised that he was reluctant to criticise a fellow Republican but said he had felt compelled to make the comments.<\/p>\n

“I just think the stakes are so high, not just for the Republican party but for the country as a whole that we have to do everything that we can” to choose the right candidate.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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