Newt: Poor Children Have "No Habits of Working" - Nick Kalman

http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/12/01/newt-poor-children-have-no-habits-working

Here we go. The Newt Gingrich Self Destruct Express. Try to stand in its way and it will just veer off and find another path to destruction.

Why this offensive is not worth going over. Why it's damaging is. First of all, the overall meme here is that Newt is attacking children, a decidedly unpopular position to take. Second of all, a lot of voters like to consider themselves as being from modest means, so they see this is as an attack upon themselves or their parents. Without getting into the details (they can clean bathrooms) this is a bad start to the media cycle which is going to focus on him for the next ten days.