Whatever Happened to the Eleventh Commandment?

The ongoing attacks on Mitt Romney by all of his Republican opponents except Rick Santorum is dangerous and disgusting. One suspects that the impetus for the attacks was Romney's negative ad campaign against Newt Gingrich in the Iowa race. Rick Perry has called Romney a "vulture capitalist" but the most articulate and venomous attacks have come from Gingrich. The trouble with Gingrich is his attack on Romney has morphed into an attack on capitalism or at least the capitalism known to everyone but Elizabeth Warren. There is no understanding between capital and labor that they are to work together to achieve a mutually advantageous end. The fiduciary responsibility the former Speaker speaks of exists nowhere except in the minds of the left. Such a responsibility would imply that management could only act in ways that did not impede labor's well being and the shareholders be damned. When the Club for Growth condemns a candidate it's probably a safe bet his conservative bona fides are in deep jeopardy.

One wonders if Gingrich's anger is so bitter that he is determined to make Romney unelectable in the general election even if he destroys his own chances in the process. These intemperate, mean, and errant attacks will resonate with blue collar workers when made be a conservative when they would for the most part be ignored if made by Obama and the left. Gingrich is once again, as he did with the Ryan Medicare plan, giving aid and comfort to the enemy which may have cost his party one special congressional election. Enough is enough! Shut up for the sake of the party and the country.