40 6- Friday, December 9, 2011 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Romney campaign launches broad new assault on rivals Gingrich attacked professionally, personally DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Republican Mitt Romney opened a broad and newly abra- sive assault on rival Newt Gin- grich on yesterday, dispatching surrogates and staff to cast him as unworthy of the GOP nomi- nation and unfit to be president Romney's allies also readied a blistering new ad in Iowa that says Gingrich has spent "30 years in Washington flip-flop- ping on issues." The former Massachusetts governor is aiming to under- mine his rising rival on both personal and professional fronts ahead of the 2012 campaign's opening contest Jan. 3 in Iowa - a reversal by the one-time front- runner who had previously all but ignored his Republican foes. "He's not a reliable and trust- ed conservative leader because he's not a reliable or trustwor- thy leader," former Missouri Sen. Jim Talent, a Romney sup- porter, said of Gingrich, offer- ing a preview of the attacks Romney's team promised would continue in the next few weeks. Romney allies, for their part, announced a $3.1 million TV ad campaign in Iowa beginning Friday that includes the new commercial assailing Gingrich on a host of fronts. "Newt has a ton of baggage ... And on the issues? Newt's been on all sides," says the ad by Restore Our Future politi- cal action committee, which is made up of aides of Romney's failed 2008 campaign. Campaigning in South Caro- lina, Gingrich brushed off the verbal assault and insisted his campaign would not change its above-the-fray approach regarding fellow Republican contenders. "We're focused on remaining positive," he said. Gingrich's reluctance to engage may be out of necessity. He dramatically lags Romney in organizational firepower as he tries to rebuild his campaign after an early summer implo- sion that left it deep in debt. The onslaught of criticism from Romney and his allies, after months of focusing solely on President Barack Obama and little on his GOP foes, comes as the race has developed into a two-person contest. Gingrich's quick rise in national and early- state polls threatens Romney's claim as the likeliest Republi- can to be chosen to challenge Obama next fall. Romney's attack strategy car- ries risks. If he's successful in tearing down his main rival, there's no guarantee that ina multi-candi- date field he'll end up benefiting from a possible Gingrich fall. At the same time, congenial Iowa voters generally don't look kind- ly on candidates who engage in negative politics, and they could end up punishing Romney in a state that already presents hur- dles for him. Plus, questioning Gingrich's adherence to conser- vatism could draw attention to Romney's own liabilities as hav- ing switched positions on key social issues including abortion and gay marriage. The candidate, himself, per- sonally stayed out of the fray yesterday, raising money in pri- vate in Virginia. WITTER 0 A Montgomery County law enforcement officer stands guard with a shotgun after a multiple shooting and ensuing cam- pus-wide manhunt on Virginia Tech's campus left two people dead in Blacksburg, Va., yesterday. V ir ginia Tech gunman kills police officer, then found dead 0 During incident, campus officials were at a hearing on 2007 shooting BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - A gunman killed a police officer in a Virginia Tech parking lot yes- terday and then apparently shot himself to death nearby in a baf- fling attack that shook up the cam- pus nearly five years after it was the scene of the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history. The shooting took place on the same day Virginia Tech officials were in Washington, fighting a government fine over their alleged mishandling of the 2007 blood- bath where 33 people were killed. Before it became clear that the gunman in yesterday's attack was dead, the school applied the les- sons learned during the last trag- edy, locking down the campus and using a high-tech alert system to warn students and faculty mem- bers to stay indoors. "In light of the turmoil and trauma and the tragedy suffered by this campus by guns, I can only say words don't describe our feel- ings and they're elusive at this point in time," university presi- dent Charles Steger said. "Our hearts are broken again for the family of our police officer." The officer was killed after pulling a driver over in a traf- fic stop. The gunman - who was not involved in the traffic stop - walked into the parking lot and ambushed the officer. Police did not know what the motive was and they didn't release the identity of the officer or shooter. A law enforcement official who spoke on the condition of anonym- ity confirmed the gunman was dead, but wouldn't say how he died. 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