Pro-Gingrich PAC: Other candidates lack ‘inner security’ to run positive campaign

A political action committee supporting Newt Gingrich on Sunday criticized the rest of the field for attacking Gingrich due to a lack of “courage and an inner security.”

The Super PAC Winning Our Future promoted the results of a survey of campaign ads in Iowa by the private Campaign Media Analysis Group (CMAG) released last week by ABC News. According to the group, 45 percent of the political ads aired in Iowa were anti-Gingrich.

“I think the people who are running the ads know they are dishonest and I think a person who will do that to try to get to be president offers you no hope that they will be any good as president,” Gingrich told ABC News last week.

{mosads}”There is one candidate who stated clearly and repeatedly that anyone running is better for America than Barack Obama,” said C. Edmund Wright of Winning Our Future, in a statement released by the Super PAC. “That takes courage and an inner security that

apparently none of the other candidates have.”

According to Wright, the focus by Republican presidential hopefuls on attacking one another has turned President Obama into the “invisible man” in the race.

“But the fact that the Speaker can take it doesn’t excuse it,” said Wright. “The entire air war in Iowa has been a waste of time. It has totally focused on the wrong things and is like a 10 million dollar gift to the Obama campaign.”

Gingrich’s status in the polls has fallen dramatically over the past weeks from his position as the frontrunner a month ago. Negative ads by GOP rivals Ron Paul and Rick Perry and a pro-Mitt Romney Super PAC have been blamed in part for Gingrich’s drop in the polls.

But speaking in Iowa on Saturday, Gingrich again doubled-down on his commitment to run a positive campaign.

“Candidates should make their children and grandchildren watch the ads they’re running. And if they’re not proud of those ads, they shouldn’t run them,” he said.

Gingrich took 14 percent in the most recent Des Moines Register poll of likely Republican caucus-goers in Iowa, the final poll to be taken ahead of the Jan. 3 caucuses in the state.