After Romney’s disappointing finishes in Tuesday’s primaries, his campaign is going on the attack against both Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum. In fact, he’s attacking them both on the subject of earmarks: “Newt opened the door and Santorum walked right through it.” The Romney camp sent out an email with the following statement from Romney spokesperson Andrea Saul:
Speaker Gingrich and Senator Santorum have over half a century’s worth of time in Washington between them. They can’t fix our country’s spending problem because they helped create it. While Newt Gingrich may have opened the door to the abuse of earmark spending, Rick Santorum walked right through it. He renounced his belief that deficits are bad and voted to raise the debt ceiling by trillions – all while supporting billions in pork-barrel spending in Pennsylvania and across the country. That is not a record that fiscal conservatives will embrace once they know the facts.
