record to thump his chest about. and you can t honestly say with a straight face that when you re looting companies you ve invested and you ve skimmed off all this money by virtue of loading them down with debt and having them go bankrupt, that is not a successful record. you don t loot companies. i got money from venture capitalist and private equity folks to start a business. these are the folks that take a risk. they give you capital so you can build a business and hopefully if you work hard, the business succeeds, and you make some money. that s what mitt romney did. that s a good thing. that s what the american dream is all about. no. the steelworker in youngstown, ohio, is the notion that mitt romney and his cronies would have walked away with tens of millions because guys just like that steelwork got hosed when their company got shut down. that s not private equity, that s a perversion of capitalism. and that s what, i think, is going to be effective as this rolls out for th
turns out he spent some time in new hampshire, goes to south carolina and it just didn t look like it was having any effect until the evangelical endorsement yesterday. chris: let s turn to the question on the attack of romney s business record at bain. at the beginning of the week, gingrich was as we saw in the tape earlier in the last segment accusing romney of looting companies. by the end of the week he was saying i want to question his record and clear up things and telling his superpac correct all of the inaccuracies in it. it gingrich trying to continue the attacks but distance himself from the superpacs to have it both ways or any sign having a backlash against him? i see some evidence there is backlash against him. a couple of polls out. one an online poll from reuters and ipsos which has gingrich falling back to 11 or 12%. i don t believe that poll is,
leaving behind a factory that should be there. chris: i understand that some of bain s inch vestments went under. what is your evidence they were looting companies. gsi steel in south carolina. they shorted the pension fund. the federal government had to bail them out yet bain capital made $17 million on the deal. i have no argument with capitalism. vultures by the way are good. chris: that was a compliment, calling him a vulture capitalist. he is trying to claim he is creating jobs when in fact, bain, 30% of their companies went out of business and in business there is winners and losers but with bain there is sometimes you win and sometimes you win. they made money on 90% of their deals. that is good. if he were running on the idea that elect me for president because i return a great investment for my investors i would have no dispute with him. he is running because he says is a job creator. he was the guy going in and dis mantling companies and destroying jobs.
turns out he spent some time in new hampshire, goes to south carolina and it just didn t look like it was having any effect until the evangelical endorsement yesterday. chris: let s turn to the question on the attack of romney s business record at bain. at the beginning of the week, gingrich was as we saw in the tape earlier in the last segment accusing romney of looting companies. by the end of the week he was saying i want to question his record and clear up things and telling his superpac correct all of the inaccuracies in it. it gingrich trying to continue the attacks but distance himself from the superpacs to have it both ways or any sign having a backlash against him? i see some evidence there is backlash against him. a couple of polls out. one an online poll from reuters and ipsos which has gingrich falling back to 11 or 12%. i don t believe that poll is,
turns out he spent some time in new hampshire, goes to south carolina and it just didn t look like it was having any effect until the evangelical endorsement yesterday. chris: let s turn to the question on the attack of romney s business record at bain. at the beginning of the week, gingrich was as we saw in the tape earlier in the last segment accusing romney of looting companies. by the end of the week he was saying i want to question his record and clear up things and telling his superpac correct all of the inaccuracies in it. it gingrich trying to continue the attacks but distance himself from the superpacs to have it both ways or any sign having a backlash against him? i see some evidence there is backlash against him. a couple of polls out. one an online poll from reuters and ipsos which has gingrich falling back to 11 or 12%. i don t believe that poll is,