This is possibly the most extreme negative ad we’ve seen in the primary campaign thus far.

The ad accuses Romney of killing corporations while an executive at private-equity firm Bain Capital, and reasons that since Romney has previously likened corporations to people, he is therefore a “serial killer.”

The ad’s narrator explains “As head of Bain Capital he bought companies, carved them up and got rid of what he couldn’t use. If Mitt Romney really believes ‘corporations are people, my friend’ than Mitt Romney is a serial killer. He’s Mitt the Ripper.”

This line of attack is incredibly ‘un-Republican’ and much more akin to the sort of negative ad that Democrat candidates might typically use.  The spot will no doubt have Obama supporters licking their lips.

Newt Gingrich continues his attacks on Mitt Romney with this latest spot that accuses him of various ‘liberal’ crimes, including having the audacity to learn French.

This, at first glance, might seem to be one of the more bizarre pieces of negative political communication.  However, do not underestimate the extent of hostility that Republican voters feel towards the ‘liberal elite’ that they feel are in control of the fate of the nation.

In this ad Newt Gingrich successfully paints Romney as being alien to and unappreciative of the concerns of your average American conservative.  It’s not pretty, but it works.

Mitt Romney is being painted as a ‘vulture capitalist’ in a new series of ads that attack the Republican primary front-runner’s activities whilst working for investment banking company Bain Capital.

Mitt Romney has stormed to victory in New Hampshire, but Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry are unlikely to make it easy for him in South Carolina as their new line of attack seems to drawing blood.

Romney’s investment banking firm — Bain Capital — in its restructuring activities made some companies go bankrupt and left workers high and dry his opponents are using this as an example of Romney being a ‘vulture capitalist’.

The ad is overly long and fairly dry, but it will certainly strike a cord with blue collar Americans who hold Wall St responsible for the dire economic straits that the USA find themselves.

The airwaves post-Iowa have been dominated by a political action committee, or SuperPac, called Restore Our Future.  The campaign, which supports Republican front-runner Mitt Romney, ran more than $1.2 million of negative ads in Iowa, mostly aimed at Newt Gingrich.

That’s a lot of advertising, in a short space of time and in a tiny geographic area.

Above is an example of the attack advertising that has been credited for relegating Newt Gingrich to a pathetic 4th place finish in Iowa.

These private pressure groups are not allowed, by law, to coordinate with candidates official campaigns, but after recent regulartory rulings, their ability to run advertising and have an impact on elections has been greatly increased.

Romney’s official campaign ran $852,370 of advertising in Iowa, all of which was postive messaging.  It’s amazing that Restore Our Future and the Official Romney campaign seemed to have such a complementary strategy without being in any sort of cahoots.

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.

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”.