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Rick Santorum now has to wrestle with Romney’s attack dogs

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What’s that rustling sound?  It’s Romney’s attack dogs rummaging through Rick Santorum’s past. This ad from Team Santorum in 2006 is now doing the rounds on Twitter to howls of laughter.

Having shocked pundits with a 2nd place showing in Iowa, Santorum will doubtless be the next target for Romney and the ‘Restore Our Future’ SuperPAC in New Hampshire.

The ‘Restore Our Future’ campaign, which so effectively bombarded Newt Gingrich out of the race in Iowa, will now be haunting the hopes and dreams of every Republican nominee and is likely to have the Obama camp spooked.

Newt Gingrich takes battle to Romney in New Hampshire

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Newt Gingrich, despite having pledged to fight a positive campaign in the Republican Party Presidential nomination, has today launched a full page attack ad in the New Hampshire Union Leader against Mitt Romney.

Labelling himself a ‘Reagan Conservative’, the advert contrasts Romney’s relatively (to the field of candidates) relaxed positions on key right-wing policies with his own.

The insert is certainly not the easiest on eyes.  The impact of making it so detailed is that the vast majority of people will skip straight passed it.  Not including the candidate’s name in either the headline or sub-header, given it’s extensive nature, is also a gamble.

I would guess that this is an advert that will work well as a stimilus for press coverage, but I doubt the average undecided Republic voter will be too influenced by the advert alone.

Ron Paul: Big Dog

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Wow.

Republican Presidential Nominee Ron Paul is clearly very keen to be seen to be the candidate most in favour of deep public sector cuts.

Paul is pledging to cut 5 whole government departments and save the taxpayer an estimated 1 Trillion Dollars.

The ad is high energy, confident and would certainly cut through. It reminds me of a promo for a World Wrestling Entertainment pay-per-view event: not such a bad thing for trying to win over Republican hearts.

For this ad to work Paul’s polling had better show that a significant number of floating Republican voters #1 priority is  “I’ll vote for whoever is going to cut hardest and fastest”.