“...Newt and Perry both shot themelves in the foot when they backed off attack mode...”
I will go to your links and see for myself before I swallow the news media gloatingly reporting they’ve “backed off” this line of attack.
Every radio talk show shill attacked mercilessly when Gingrich and Perry hit Romney on Romney’s BS claim that he was a private sector job greator through his corporate raider activities. All this tells me is they were hitting Romney where he is most vulnerable. All Gingrich and Perry did was try to explain they were not attacking the capitalist system itself and the Romney shills would say they had backed off their attacks on Romney.
The local radio station played Newt’s comments several times yesterday - Newt telling a reporter his attacks were a “mistake”. He should have reinforced that he was taken out of context or that he was misunderstood...he should have explained himself, but instead comes off as weak and a knee-jerk reactionary.