Perry: Naive to think Democrats wouldn’t have attacked Romney’s Bain record

{mosads}Perry also maintained that he didn’t “have a problem with” receiving millions in campaign donations from venture capital firms.

“My point is that the Republican Party needs to be about creating jobs, not about putting policies in place that cause people to lose their jobs,” Perry said.

He also insisted that his “record has been vetted for 11 years on a pretty regular basis.”

Perry hopes that his criticism of Romney’s jobs record will help him regain momentum in blue-collar South Carolina, where unemployment is nearly 10 percent. But the Texas governor has a substantial amount of catching up to do, with an Insider Advantage poll released Thursday showing him last in the Republican field with 5 percent of the vote, 18 points behind Romney.