He didn’t bash capitalism and he’s not “walking it back.” He said that Obama’s class-warfare rhetoric had clouded the issue, which was not about capitalism. It was about Romney’s true past business activities, not the phony image Romney has been allowed to project of himself as a heroic “captain of industry.”
That said, I think Gingrich can permit himself to say, “oh, sorry if you’re offended, old man” to Mitt - the classic non-apology apology, especially after the trash that the Romney campaign published about Gingrich (and had to withdraw under threat of a libel suit).
Yes, many seem to forget this was not an opening salvo on Newt's part, but a response to scurrilous lies by Mitt's PAC.
I watched Mitt talk about the 'desperate' actions of others and I was in momentary awe of his shameless cynicism.