Conservatives are furious with Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry for attacking Romney

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/romneys-gop-critics-undermining-his-general-election-argument/2012/01/10/gIQArYIVoP_blog.html

Posted at 01:17 PM ET, 01/10/2012

Romney’s GOP critics undermining his general election argument

By Greg Sargent

Conservatives are furious with GOP candidates like Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry for attacking Mitt Romney’s Bain tenure as capitalism run amok. Gingrich has claimed that Bain “looted” other companies, and Perry today slammed enterprises like Bain as “vultures” who “eat the carcass” of its victims, prompting a fresh round of outrage from the right.

Conservatives have good reason for being angry about this. In attacking Romney’s Bain years in these terms, his fellow Republicans are mainstreaming and giving bipartisan legitimacy to one of the chief arguments Obama and Dems will use against Romney in the general election. They are badly undermining Romney’s whole pushback against it — giving Dems an advantage in the coming war to define Romney’s Bain years, which will be as central to the general election narrative as the war over John Kerry’s Vietnam service was in 2004.

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1. lol

sometimes i think they just need something to be furious about.

[gateley]

3. No kidding! I got an email from a friend of mine saying for some reason he's become

a rageaholic recently. I asked if he'd become a Republican. I equate the two.

[barbtries]

7. lol

did he say, yes?

[WI_DEM]

2. That's right when the Dems use it in the fall

they can say that this line of attack didn't originate from the dems but with Romney's GOP opponents. It's priceless!

[BeyondGeography]

4. It's probably the nature of the attacks that bothers them the most

I mean, corporate raiders are supposed to be the good guys in their world, bringing the purifying and liberating impacts of unfettered Randian self-interest to waters soiled by years of socialist-style neglect, often involving union stooges.

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. It's what they do best - kind of a natural instinct.

I hope they bash each other into oblivion.

[justiceischeap]

6. If Mittney wins the nomination, it's gonna be really hard for Newt or Perry

to endorse him after these kinds of attacks.

[barbtries]

8. but they will

remember what rove did to mccain

[lpbk2713]

9. They will have to do better than that.

Right now Romney is his own worst enemy.

Gingrich and Perry will have to work hard to outdo "I like to fire people".

That's a classic for sure.

[leftynyc]

10. All I know is

that I was kinda worried about Mitt being the nominee. Now I'm salivating at the thought.

[AtomicKitten]

11. Well I'm loving every minute of it.

Fortunately the Anybody But Mittens candidates have enough money to pummel him in preparation for Round Two when Pres O will finish him off. Boom.

[malaise]

12. Meanwhile

I'm lovin' it
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