If the contentious Republican presidential field can agree on anything anymore, it's that the free market is king and the Democrats' "class warfare" against it is wrong. So why, Jon Stewart asks, have the rest of the GOP hopefuls ganged up on Mitt Romney for being rich? As we saw in Sunday's debate, that's been the lastest line of attack from the anti-Romneys has he's surged ahead in the polls. Romney's wealth and influence is "unfair" and makes him out-of-touch, the other candidates (mostly Gingirch) argue, but isn't Romney's successful business career "the pure distillation of conservative economic policy"?
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