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Rick Perry said Thursday it was "naive" to think Democrats wouldn't have adopted criticism of Mitt Romney's leadership at Bain Capital and defended his own contributions from venture capital firms in an interview Thursday on the Laura Ingraham show.

Ingraham asked the Texas governor whether he was concerned that Democrats seemed to be pouncing on the attacks, but Perry insisted that it was better to address Romney's potential vulnerable in a primary.

"Well anybody that thinks that this administration and their political team is not going to have this information and probably had it a long time before it was brought up by us is being quite naïve," Perry said. "And my point is if this is a fatal flaw as I said earlier it is better to talk about it in January than it is in September because I can promise you that the opposition is going to have all of these kind of issues at hand."

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