"I do think it's kind of absurd that there's been this kind of general response, mostly by Romney supporters, that to question his record is to be opposed capitalism," Newt Gingrich said about digging into Mitt Romney's involved with Bain Capital. "Mitt Romney said he had two criteria for being president, one was his record of Governor which he doesn't want to discuss, because it's too liberal for South Carolina. The other was, he claimed he created 100,000 jobs."
"The Washington Post gave him three Pinocchios on that jobs claim. They pointed out that in 1994, running for the Senate, he claimed to have created 10,000 jobs and then he wasn't in a Bain Capital management role after that and they said they couldn't find any evidence that he created 100,000 jobs. Working with Clinton, we created 11 million jobs, a pretty big difference in scale."
"So I've asked questions about 'Let's look at the record. Let's see the details. Don't just give us the claim. Show us what actually happened.' That somehow got turned into questioning capitalism which is baloney."
"This guy is running for president. He is making a set of claims. He bases a lot of it on his career. If you ask about his career it's because he is running for President, I think he owes the country a much more detailed answer about what his career was like, what decisions they made. Because we're looking at the judgment, the values of a particular person, not of a system, but one guy, Mitt Romney who wants to be President."
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