Newt Gingrich helped create the super PACs that are taking him down

[kpete]

Not long ago Newt Gingrich seemed to be a big fan of super PACs.

The former House Speaker two years ago called the new legal framework that gave rise to unlimited fundraising by outside groups a “great victory for free speech” and predicted that the biggest of the recent federal court decisions deregulating campaign rules would make “it easier for middle-class candidates to compete against the wealthy and incumbents.”

Then he got a taste of the new rules in Iowa.

After weeks of withering attacks by a super PAC supporting his rival Mitt Romney, Gingrich won’t stop talking about the injustices of unchecked spending — specifically the $3 million spent attacking him. He even coined a name for it, saying he got “Romney-boated” by his chief opponent’s “millionaire friends.”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71097.html
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/05/1051806/-Newt-Gingrich-helped-create-the-super-PACs-that-are-taking-him-down?via=blog_1

[WingDinger]

1. Hoisted on his pwn repuketard.