A good interview with Perry tonight, who says that his ‘vulture capitalism’ comments have been overblown:
When I was talking about Gov. Romney, I was talking about two companies right here in S.C. where they came in and they made that decision to throw a lot of debt at these companies and then strip out the assets and sell the companies and those people lost their jobs. I don’t think that’s the theory and the best way for the Republican presidential candidate to be talking about “here’s the way we’re going to operate in the future.”
I’m the candidate that has actually created jobs working with our legislature, and over a million jobs. And that is an indisputable fact, that we’ve created over a million jobs in the state of Texas while I’ve been the governor, creating that business climate where people know they can risk their capital. …My record in Texas is what Americans are looking for rather than the private equity background that Mitt Romney has.
They also talk about cuts he would make as well as how to keep Ron Paul from torpedoing the Republican Party in the general.
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