The hardest blow yet against Newt Gingrich comes this afternoon from Ron Paul's campaign, which dropped this lengthy, scathing video documenting Gingrich's ideological deviations and ties to the D.C. influence trade: 
 
 Featured in the video: Gingrich's comments about Paul Ryan, Rush Limbaugh's response, the former speaker's climate change video with Nancy Pelosi, extensive reports on Gingrich's ties to health care companies and Freddie Mac. 
 
 Oh, and remember that Iowa voter who told Gingrich last spring that he was an "embarrassment to our party"? He's there, too. 
 
 We'll see who, if anyone, actually puts clips like this up on television, but at the very least Paul's well-produced video shows how much damning source material is available. ||||| Texas Congressman and fundraising powerhouse Ron Paul‘s campaign released an absolutely brutal web ad attacking current national frontrunner Newt Gingrich for “serial hypocrisy.” The spot, which is a too-long-for-TV 148 seconds, features a review of Gingrich flip-flops, accompanied by blistering criticism from the likes of Rush Limbaugh and GOP golden boy Rep. Paul Ryan. With Paul polling in third place in New Hampshire, should Newt be worried about the Ronulan attack? 
 
 The ad doesn’t even touch all the bases on Gingrich, but hits hard at Gingrich over his climate change ad with Nancy Pelosi, his criticism of the Ryan budget plan, his Freddie Mac connections, and his support for an individual health insurance mandate, all set to an epic score, and sinister, grainy black-and-white photography. The production is slick, if a bit cliched, but the overall effect is devastating. 
 
 Ordinarily, a web ad wouldn’t figure to have much of an impact, but Ron Paul’s supporters are a highly motivated, resourceful lot who will doubtless make sure this spot reaches maximum eyeballs. 
 
 Newt Gingrich is the latest in a long line of non-Romneys to take a ride at the top of the polls, and Ron Paul is one of the only candidates left who hasn’t gotten his turn. While Paul is routinely ignored by the media as a candidate with a cultish following who can’t improve on his middling poll numbers, much crazier things have happened in this year’s Republican race. Game on. 
 
 Here’s the ad, from the Ron Paul campaign: 
 
 
 
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 I was awestruck by a new Ron Paul ad attacking Newt Gingrich even before I saw that I have a cameo at the end. Full disclosure: I think the ad would be better without me. It’s most devastating when it features conservatives attacking Newt. 
 
 And it features plenty of them. Watch it yourself, below. It’s titled “Newt Gingrich: Serial Hypocrisy,” which seems an arch reference to Gingrich’s history of serial adultery. But the ad ignores the messy divorces and the Tiffany’s credit line to stick to politics, and there’s plenty to work with. 
 
 It starts with Gingrich blathering on about “policy and values and seriousness,” and it then marches through examples of his flip-flops and hypocrisy on each of those points. The ad he made with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, back when he admitted climate change was real, is damning, but news anchor voice-overs reporting his changing positions on the bank bailouts are pretty bad too. We get his attack on Paul Ryan’s budget, and Ryan’s angry reaction, as well as the GOP voter who told Gingrich he was “an embarrassment to the party.” We see Fox anchors and CNBC’s Larry Kudlow voicing disapproval for his shifting stands on Freddie Mac, before and after it was revealed he took almost $2 million for strategic advice (don’t call it lobbying!). 
 
 The ad gathers momentum, and a sense of moral outrage, as it focuses on Gingrich’s taking millions from Freddie Mac as well as the healthcare industry, and supporting policies — the individual mandate, universal private insurance, end of life care — that he now opposes, since they’re all anathema to the GOP base. That’s where MSNBC’s Ed Schultz and I come in; Schultz reads from the Washington Post story revealing Gingrich took $37 million from the healthcare industry, and I note his ever-changing positions on healthcare-related issues. “He’s flipped and flopped based on who’s paying him,” I tell Schultz. The central voice, though, is Rush Limbaugh, mocking Gingrich over and over. When Schultz and Limbaugh and I agree, you know someone’s in trouble. 
 
 I’ve been saying this week that it’s time for the former front-runner Mitt Romney to go on the offensive against Gingrich. But Romney had trouble holding his own in an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier. So he’s got his own problems now, when he’s tripped up by simple questions about his own flip-flops from relatively friendly Fox News. Ron Paul served up Gingrich’s goose instead. Paul showed similar flair with an ad taking down Texas Gov. Rick Perry, touting his ties to Al Gore. Whether on foreign policy or in the ad war, Paul keeps this race interesting. I’ll be talking about all of this with MSNBC’s Ed Schultz — again — at 8 ET. I’ll aspire to make someone else’s highlight reel. Here’s the ad: 
 
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 Texas Rep. and GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul released a harsh attack ad Wednesday evening against Newt Gingrich, the former House Speaker and a fellow GOP candidate. 
 
 The ad, available to journalists through a “private” YouTube link, hit Gingrich for numerous allegedly contradictory statements about individual health care mandates, his involvement with Fannie and Freddie Mac, and Wisconsin Republican Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget plan. 
 
 The Web ad uses quotes from media outlets and commentators including ABC News, the Los Angeles Times, MSNBC’s Ed Schultz, Fox Business Network’s Gerri Willis and conservative radio talked Rush Limbaugh — and numerous statements from Gingrich himself. 
 
 The Paul campaign says it is working to prove that Gingrich is not a consistent conservative. 
 
 “Our campaign is making a bold move to debunk the myth that the Newt we are seeing on the 2012 campaign trail is the conservative he has been touted to be all along,” said Paul national campaign chairman Jesse Benton. 
 
 “This step we are taking is necessary, as voters are seeking authenticity among conservatives who are able to show a decades-long career of consistently walking the walk of Constitutional principles, limited government, and promoting sound money and economic policy,” Benton continued. “Ron Paul is the only Republican presidential candidate with that record.” 
 
 The Gingrich campaign defended Newt’s conservative record, but refrained from mentioning Paul — instead taking a shot at GOP candidate Mitt Romney. 
 
 “No candidate in the race has achieved more conservative reform of government or spent more time and energy championing the cause of the conservative movement than Newt Gingrich, which is why voters across the country are choosing Newt over Mitt Romney,” Gingrich campaign spokesman R.C. Hammond said when asked for comment. 
 
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 Follow CJ on Twitter ||||| In another surprising 2012 plot twist, Ron Paul became the first Republican candidate to take on the new frontrunner Newt Gingrich today, releasing a scathing video that attacks Gingrich for "serial hypocrisy." 
 
 The 150-second web spot is a dramatic — and very well-produced — mashup of Gingrich clips from over the years, including his cozy global warming ad with Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi. It also features Gingrich's fight with House Budget Chair Paul Ryan and references his ties to mortgage giant Freddie Mac. 
 
 The message throughout is that Gingrich is happy to change his policy positions "depending on who's paying him." 
 
 It is a hard-hitting attack that clearly aims to remind conservatives why they didn't like Newt Gingrich the first time around. 
 
 Watch the video below.
– Dear Newt, Ron Paul would like to warmly welcome you to your new role as frontrunner, or at least almost-frontrunner, with this blistering new ad. It's called "Serial Hypocrisy," notes the Daily Caller, and it weaves together various clips (Gingrich talking health care with Nancy Pelosi, the "social engineering" comment about Paul Ryan, his Freddie Mac riches, Rush Limbaugh blasting him, etc.) into a two-and-a-half-minute assault. Business Insider: Calls it "scathing," with a clear aim to "remind conservatives why they didn't like Newt Gingrich the first time around." Politico: "The hardest blow yet against Newt Gingrich ..." Mediaite: It's "absolutely brutal" ... Salon: Joan Walsh is "awestruck" by it, and not because she's in it.