If Mitt Romney's "real world" works by bankrupting companies and laying off employees,
then his version of the "real world" is the last thing we need, thank you very much.
Well
this is a pretty dumb response from the Mitt Romney campaign to Newt Gingrich's
claim that Romney made millions "bankrupting companies and laying employees off" at Bain Capital:
Newt Gingrich comes from the world where politicians are paid millions after they retire to influence their friends in Washington. Mitt Romney comes from the private sector, where the economy is built by hard work and entrepreneurial drive. It’s clear that after 30 years as a Washington insider, Newt Gingrich has no clue how the real world economy works. After 25 years in business, Mitt Romney understands how jobs come and go, and what we need to do to get our economy back on track. If Newt Gingrich is our party’s nominee, the choice in next year’s election will be between two professional politicians, two Washington insiders, two people with no experience in the real world of job creation.
Notice that they don't actually reject Gingrich's characterization of how Romney made his money. In fact, they actually embrace it by saying Romney understands not just how jobs "come," but also how they "go." Given that Romney made much of his money accelerating—and profiting from—the latter part part of that equation, you'd think he'd want to avoid talking about it. Instead, they simply say Gingrich is clueless because he doesn't understand how the "real world" works. But somehow I think most people won't see Romney's version of reality in as positive a light as does he. Maybe Republicans will—but not the rest of America.