Hoping to bring Newt Gingrich’s numbers down in the polls, his GOP rivals are beginning to hit back. Ron Paul’s campaign will be airing this sixty-second version of their previously released web video targeting Gingrich in Iowa:

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Rick Santorum also took a swipe at Gingrich yesterday. Referring to when the Republicans took over the House in 1994, Santorum said, according to Radio Iowa, “Unfortunately Republicans, you know, got in and weren’t able to make the kind of big changes (proposed in the Contract with America) other than the one I was involved with which is welfare reform … Other than that, we didn’t take the ball very far down the field.”