Mitt Romney’s decisive win in New Hampshire on Tuesday’s first 2012 primary is sending his opponents in a direction you would never expect to hear in these days of an anti-Occupy Wall Street and pro-Tea Party GOP collective. Romney’s opponents are attacking Romney…from the Left. That’s correct, opponent after opponent is now railing against Mitt Romney’s free market experience while at Bain Capital. The very party which touts the free market system is railing again Romney’s practices while at Bain.
Rick Perry called Romney a “vulture capitalist” in South Carolina. Also in the Palmetto State, Romney rivals Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry accused Romney of being greedy, unethical, and completely ignorant to the needs of the average working person when working at Bain.
Now let’s be fair here. If we’re going to tout anti-socialist talking points, and complain about the Occupy Wall Street redistribution of wealth ideology, then we can’t be the ones punishing success when we’re accusing Liberals of punishing success through higher tax rates. That would be hypocritical.
Could it be that the candidates are slowly conceding, and actually circling the wagons around Romney by trying to prepare him for the attacks from the Left? Maybe they’re trying to bring up the anti-corporatist attacks sooner and from their own party, rather than wait until the Left can do it during the general election. Maybe this way, it’ll (hopefully) all be “old news” when it comes time to face-off against President Obama. Or…maybe…they’re just desperate. This must be a last-ditch effort to curb the Romney tide before he all but wraps this thing up if he can take both South Carolina and Florida.