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Former presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, who during the Republican primaries found himself on the blunt end of brutal attack ads paid for by a super PAC supporting his rival Mitt Romney, predicted Thursday that the slew of negative ads from outside groups would be even worse in the general election. "You watch this fall: Between the Obama Super PACs and the Romney super PACs, the conservative Super PACs, the liberal Super PACs, it's going to be a mess," Gingrich said during an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," "and people are going to be sick of it and it's really unfortunate. It's not the way a great nation should govern itself." Gingrich has long been a vocal critic of campaign finance rules that cap the amount of money a candidate is allowed to raise from individual donors, a system, he says, that funnels money to less transparent organizations to pay for political speech. On the campaign trail earlier this year, Gingrich often argued for replacing the...