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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt appears that Santorum is so confident of his "surge"...
...that he's bailing on NH tomorrow morning after the debate and will be campaigning in SC instead.
malaise
(267,452 posts)and that he hasn't forgotten the attacks re earmarks
http://thatmrgguy.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/rick-santorum-has-issues-with-jim-demint/
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Rick Santorum has some pent up issues with Jim DeMint.
Just a few weeks before DeMint stood for re-election on South Carolinas ballot, Rick Santorum showed up in DeMints neighborood to tell everyone Jim DeMint was wrong on earmarks. Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania said the Constitution gives Congress control of the purse strings and that he supported earmarks for port deepening while a senator the opposite of the position that DeMint is taking. But former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia said DeMint has shown moral courage in refusing to support any earmarks, including one that the State Ports Authority says is needed to study the deepening of Charleston Harbor.
Santorum went on John King USA on CNN tonight and again defended earmarks claiming Jim DeMint did it too without acknowledging DeMint repented and has since led the fight against earmarks. When asked about what he may or may not have said about black welfare recipients, Santorum defended himself by claiming he got earmarks for a black community in Pennsylvania.
Get ready for conservatives to have to refight this critical fight against the gateway drug to big government spending.
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