Gov. Rick Perry Loses Major SC Supporter to Mitt Romney over “Vulture Capitalist” Attack – 1/12/12

Devastating news for what small chance Rick Perry may have had in South Carolina. His “Vulture Capitalist” attack on Mitt Romney is not going over well with one of his major supporters:

CNN Political Ticker: One of Rick Perry’s leading financial supporters in South Carolina is defecting to Mitt Romney – and he told CNN Thursday that Perry’s sharp criticisms of Romney as a “vulture capitalist” were the main factor in his decision.

Both Perry and Newt Gingrich recently began hammering Romney as a predatory capitalist who looted companies and fired workers when he was running the private equity firm Bain Capital in the 1980s and 1990s.

Barry Wynn, the former chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party and a financial adviser in Spartanburg, said the escalating rhetoric about Romney’s business background is “destructive.”

“It’s just a dance I didn’t want to be a part of,” Wynn said in an interview, explaining his decision to leave Perry’s campaign. . . .

Wynn was part of a group of Republican bundlers who traveled to Texas last August to meet with Perry before he launched his presidential bid.

But he said the Texas governor’s latest message is contrary to “everything that Republicans have been struggling for.”

“It’s hard enough to make that case for capitalism, and to have people in our own party attacking the case, it’s not good for the party or good for the country,” he said. “It kind of falls into this politics of envy that the Obama campaign is going to be all about between now and November.” . . . Read More

There’s something to be said for giving it your best and if you don’t win, just walk away with dignity.