FT. MEYERS, FL. -- Flush with a new $5 million donation from the wife of Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, a pro-Gingrich super PAC today made a $6 million ad buy in Florida and launched an ad attacking rival Mitt Romney as a moderate by using his own words against him. 
 
 "I'm not a partisan Republican," Romney says in a previous interview featured in the Gingrich ad. "I'm someone who is moderate. My views are progressive." 
 
 The ad, which will air throughout Florida in advance of its pivotal primary next Tuesday, focuses on Romney's embrace of a government mandate for people to buy health insurance when he was the governor of Massachusetts. 
 
 "Those who follow the path that we pursued will find it's the best path," Romney says in an old interview on NBC's "Meet the Press." "And we'll end up with a nation that's taken a mandate approach." 
 
 And in a moment the Romney campaign would rather forget, President Obama is shown praising him for the state's health plan, which served as a model for the one Obama later championed and which is now anathema to conservative primary voters. "I agree with Mitt Romney, who recently said he's proud of what he accomplished on health care," Obama is shown saying in the ad, which also displays a 2011 Wall Street Journal headline that says, "Romney: Obama's Running Mate." 
 
 Ryan Williams, a spokesman for Romney, went after the veracity of the attacks in a statement, targeting both Gingrich and the PAC for an alleged inability to "tell the truth." 
 
 
 
 "Speaker Gingrich has demonstrated that he can't tell the truth about his unprecedented ethics reprimand, his resignation in disgrace at the hands of his own party, and his work as a highly paid Washington lobbyist for Freddie Mac. It's not a surprise that his allies can't tell the truth either," Williams said. 
 
 This is the first ad buy in Florida for Winning Our Future, which spent more than $4 million in attack ads aimed at Romney in South Carolina during the 10 days before its primary Saturday. 
 
 
 
 The new ads are designed to help blunt attacks on Gingrich's record being financed by the Romney campaign and the pro-Romney super PAC, Restore our Future, which has already spent more than $4.4 million in ads in the state. 
 
 
 
 
 
 See below for the full transcript of the ad: 
 
 
 
 Think you know Mitt? Think again. 
 
 ON screen: "Romney: Obama's Running Mate." WSJ 5/12/11 
 
 Mitt: Those who follow the path that we pursued will find it's the best path and we'll end up with a nation that's taken a mandate approach. 
 
 On screen: Obama used "health care law as blue print for federal law" NBC News 10/11/11 
 
 VO: When Mitt Romney invented Government run health care, Romney advisers helped Barack Obama write the disastrous Obamacare. 
 
 On screen: Romney advisers held "a dozen meetings...with Obama team" Forbes 10/31/11 
 
 Mitt: We put together an exchange and the president's copying that idea. I'm glad to hear that. 
 
 Obama: I agree with Mitt Romney, who recently said he's proud of what he accomplished on health care. 
 
 Photos: Obama signs bill (Pelosi in background)...Romney signs bill 
 
 On screen: Romneycare "disaster unfolding in Massachuestts" Forbes 10/31/11 
 
 VO: Romneycare sent costs spiraling out of control. Hiking premiums. Squeezing household budgets. 
 
 Mitt: "I'm not a partisan republican. I'm someone who is moderate My views are progressive." 
 
 REWIND Mitt: "My views are progressive." 
 
 Obama: "I agree with Mitt Romney." 
 
 VO: "Now desperate to save his failing campaign, Romney promises to repeal Obamacare. How can we trust him?" 
 
 On screen: "Mitt Romney can't be trusted to fulfill this promise." Forbes 10/31/11 
 
 VO: Think you know Mitt? 
 
 Mitt: "I'm someone who is moderate My views are progressive." 
 
 VO: Think again. ||||| Sheldon Adelson, chairman and chief executive of Las Vegas Sands Corp., has almost single-handedly bankrolled a "super PAC" supporting Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign. (Kiyoshi Ota / Bloomberg / ) 
 
 Casino titan Sheldon Adelson, who has almost single-handedly bankrolled a “super PAC” backing Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign, now believes Gingrich is “at the end of his line.” 
 
 Speaking to a group outside his Las Vegas hotel and casino the Venetian, Adelson this week criticized GOP front-runner Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, but acknowledged that his preferred candidate had little hope of becoming the nominee. 
 
 “It appears as though he’s at the end of his – at the end of his line,” Adelson said in comments Monday that were reported by JewishJournal.com. “'Cause, I mean, mathematically, he can’t get anywhere near the numbers, and there’s not – unlikely there’ll be a brokered convention.” 
 
 Adelson, along with his wife and children, has donated $16.5 million to Winning Our Future, a super PAC that was instrumental in paying for advertising to boost Gingrich’s cash-strapped campaign. Since its creation, the super PAC has raised a total of $18.8 million, according to campaign finance reports through the end of February. 
 
 Adelson was speaking informally while attending the Jewish Federations of North America’s TribeFest, which was held at The Venetian. 
 
 He criticized Santorum for being too focused on social issues. Adelson described himself as a “social liberal” who is pro-choice. 
 
 “I know Rick; I like him,” Adelson said. “We’re friendly. But I got to tell you something, I don’t want him to run my country.” 
 
 Turning to Romney, Adelson sounded frustrated by the former Massachusetts governor’s unwillingness to commit to his causes. 
 
 “He’s not the bold decision-maker like Newt Gingrich is,” Adelson said. “He doesn’t want to – every time I talk to him, he says, ‘Well, let me think about it.’” 
 
 Adelson said he had talked to both Romney and Gingrich about agreeing to choose the other as a vice presidential nominee. Gingrich, he said, rebuffed the idea because it would make it harder to gain much-needed support from governors in other states. 
 
 “Newt says, ‘Listen, I would do that except that every governor whose help you need to go through the election is hoping he’ll be the vice president pick. So if I go into the contest with a vice president already picked, they’re not going to help me.’” 
 
 kim.geiger@latimes.com 
 
 
 
 
 
 Sheldon Adelson: Newt 'at the end of his line' [video]
– Newt Gingrich's super PAC is jumping into the Florida mudslinging contest, with an ad bashing Mitt Romney over his role in helping to devise mandate-based health care. The Winning Our Future PAC, riding high thanks to a $5 million donation from the wife of Vegas casino owner Sheldon Adelson, has bought $6 million worth of air time for a new ad tying Romney to President Obama, using past Romney quotes like, "I'm someone who is moderate. My views are progressive," CBS reports. And what's worse than being a moderate? Being faithful to your wife. In an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network, Gingrich painted his marital problems as a plus, even turning it into a subtle dig against Romney. "I think most people can identify," he said. "It may make me more normal than somebody who wanders around seeming perfect and maybe not understanding the human condition, and the challenges of life for normal people."