Newt Goes Negative  Dec 13 2011 @ 10:37am  Joe Klein scores
yesterday's Romney and Gingrich spat:  Gingrich is really good
at this. He has been ever since he drove Tip O’Neill crazy in
the early 1980s. When he can control his laser-mouth, it can be
a powerful tool. He’s been controlling it so far. He may not be
able to do so for long, but…do not underestimate the value of
senior citizen hormones.  Dave Weigel dissects Gingrich's line
of attack:  Shaming a businessman about the people he's
"bankrupted" and "laid off" sounds like the work of an Occupier,
not a private-enterprise loving conservative. Yes, it's true
that Bain was not a job creation machine. Romney's being
disengenuous when he says it was. But there's a perfectly
respectable conservative ethos that defends what Bain did,
arguing that the only responsibility of a corporation is to make
money.  Adam Sorensen notes that Gingrich is counter-attacking,
not attacking: