Mitt Romney is up everywhere but South Carolina, where some polls have him running neck-and-neck with Newt Gingrich. And so, naturally, Romney-friendly superPAC Restore Our Future has put out an anti-Gingrich ad. It doesn’t address any of Gingrich’s claims about Bain Capital, but it is a pretty mean ad:
Frankly, I think this is kind of a dumb move. All this ad is going to do is piss Newt Gingrich off, and when Newt gets mad, he has to get even. It’s like a biological imperative. If Mitt ignored the Gingrich campaign, Newt would probably bow out earlier. As it is, he’s provoking Gingrich to stay in the race and keep throwing punches.
But remember as Colbert/Stewart made perfectly clear, Newt had nothing to do with this!