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Romney defended his capitalist credentials by lining himself up with the philosopher known as a father of capitalism, proudly announcing, "Adam Smith was right." Perry managed to turn the news that U.S. troops had apparently been captured on video urinating on corpses in Afghanistan into an indictment of the Obama administration. The Texas governor accused the Obama team of piling on against "kids" who sometimes make "stupid mistakes." It didn't do him much good: He was out of the race within days. Then came the issue of infidelity: Gingrich chose not to comment on the details of his marriage to his second wife after she claimed that he'd asked her for an "open marriage" in which he could have both a wife and a mistress. Gingrich managed to steer that conversation to the one enemy that all the candidates love to beat up on: the media. "I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country," he declared. But even rival Rick Santorum saw through the tactic, urging voters not to be swept away by Gingrich's blast at the press. Republicans should "get past the glib one-liners, the beating up of the media, which is always popular with conservatives," Santorum said. Democratic strategist Karen Finney said the Republicans' random list of friends and foes has emerged as candidates "try to pick off pieces of the Republican electorate" with very targeted appeals that will add up to an overall win in each primary or caucus state. "The narrative is shifting based on the audiences they're speaking to," she said. "There's always, 'Who's the good guy and who's the bad guy,'" she said. In this campaign, that lineup changes every day.
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