The SuperPAC promoting Newt Gingrichs presidential campaign is unleashing radio ads Thursday in three key states as well as nationally on popular conservative talk shows. The target of the independent groups attack ads isnt Rick Santorum, who has surged to the front of the race, but rather Mr. Gingrichs favorite nemesis, Mitt Romney, along with the faceless enemy known as the Republican establishment. The five ads called Time to Choose two run a full minute, the others go 30 seconds build on Mr. Gingrichs own increasingly angry statements in the past two months about the GOP establishment and its apparent efforts to derail his march to the nomination. And they lump Mr. Romney in with losing Republican nominees and direct listeners to a new website, Timetochoose.com. The PAC, Winning Our Future, bought $170,000 in air time in Arizona, North Carolina and Ohio, according to Rick Tyler, who helps run the group. A media buyer tracking political ads said the PAC also bought $680,000 in national time for spots to run Thursday morning on programs hosted by Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin,… … .The ads, even the two labeled positive, dont 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. Weve 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 theyre giving us Mitt Romney? It continues: The establishment doesnt 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... (Excerpt) Read more at blogs.wsj.com …
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