Believe it or not, Newt Gingrich is doing Mitt
Romney a favor. Gingrich has spent the past week attacking Romney’s
tenure as the head of Bain Capital, the private equity firm Romney
helped found in the 1980s. The attacks, however, have mostly
backfired. In fact, they’ve managed to generate the one thing that
the Romney campaign has failed to win or buy for itself:
sympathy.

But as Peter Suderman explains, what’s good for Romney may be
bad for the rest of us. Gingrich’s attacks aren’t just helping to
unite conservatives in defense of Romney, they’re distracting from
the very real flaws in Romney’s record.