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Perry: Naive to think Democrats wouldn't have attacked Romney's Bain record
Rick Perry said Thursday it was "naïve" to think Democrats wouldn't adopt criticism of Mitt Romney's leadership at Bain Capital and defended taking campaign contributions from venture capital firms in an interview Thursday on the Laura Ingraham show.
Ingraham asked the Texas governor whether he was concerned that Democrats seemed to be pouncing on the attacks, but Perry insisted that it was better to address Romney's potential vulnerable in a primary.
"Well anybody that thinks that this administration and their political team is not going to have this information and probably had it a long time before it was brought up by us is being quite naïve," Perry said. "And my point is if this is a fatal flaw, as I said earlier, it is better to talk about it in January than it is in September because I can promise you that the opposition is going to have all of these kind of issues at hand."
"My point is that the Republican Party needs to be about creating jobs, not about putting policies in place that cause people to lose their jobs," Perry said.
He also insisted that his "record has been vetted for 11 years on a pretty regular basis."
Perry hopes that his criticism of Romney's jobs record will help him regain momentum in blue-collar South Carolina, where unemployment is nearly 10 percent. But the Texas governor has a substantial amount of catching up to do, with an Insider Advantage poll released Thursday showing him last in the Republican field with 5 percent of the vote, 18 points behind Romney.
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