Gingrich takes big risk in new attack on Romney

DERRY, NH — With just hours to go before voting begins in the New Hampshire primary, Newt Gingrich is taking an extraordinary gamble, betting that Republican voters who once rejected his critique of Mitt Romney’s business record will change their minds when they learn more about what Romney actually did in the 1980s and 1990s as head of Bain Capital.

“I don’t think a Milton Friedman or a Hayek would say to you, rich guys have to go and rip off companies and leave a wreckage behind,” Gingrich said in an interview after a town hall appearance here Sunday night. “I think that’s plundering. I don’t think that’s capitalism.”