Newt Gingrich Blasts Karl Rove's New Super-PAC: It's 'Dangerous' And A 'Terrible Idea'

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Former Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is going on the offensive over Karl Rove's new Super-PAC, blasting Rove in both an op-ed in Human Events and in an appearance on CBS "This Morning" on Wednesday.

"Terrible idea," Gingrich said on CBS. "We don’t want to become a party in which a handful of political bosses gather up money from billionaires in order to destroy the candidates they don’t like, and that’s what you’re talking about."

"When you get involved in these kind of primary fights it’s almost all negative advertising and it's all by outsiders. I think this is a very dangerous model. The fact is, last year we lost nine U.S. Senate races we could have won. There’s some very deep rethinking we need to do as a party, but it isn't gathering up more money by Washington consultants for them to try to hand-pick, across all 50 states, the people they think should be in the U.S. Senate."

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"This is a country which is in many ways younger, more Latino, more Asian-American and African-American than Republican strategists are capable of dealing with, and as a result in many ways we're going to be non-competitive at the presidential level," he added.

More at Business Insider: [link:http://www.businessinsider.com/newt-gingrich-karl-rove-super-pac-conservative-victory-project-2013-2?utm_source=alerts|Newt Gingrich Blasts Karl Rove's New Super-PAC: It's 'Dangerous' And A 'Terrible Idea'
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And now, some snips from Newt's delicious op-ed: Why Karl Rove and Stuart Stevens are Plain Wrong

I am writing this newsletter in a very direct, no baloney, effort to get across how much trouble we Republicans are in and how real the internal party fight is going to be.

He goes on to say that he supports the RNC Chair's plan to learn from the lessons of the 2012 election and rethink the pathways the GOP takes. He then goes on to note that there will be "powerful" opponents to this rethinking.

And he opines it's "appalling how little" some of these consultants have learned from 2012.

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It is even more disturbing how arrogant their plans for the future are.

Of course these consultants have made an amazing amount of money asserting an expertise they clearly don’t have.

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Handing millions to Washington based consultants to destroy the candidates they dislike and nominate the candidates they do like is an invitation to cronyism, favoritism and corruption.

Much, much more at the link.

And, of course, there's a Newt product to be bought here....Newt's "brilliance" in the form of "our Lessons to be Learned project at Gingrich Productions."

(all emphases above are mine)