Santorum On Romney Comments: ‘I Am Not Too Sure That Is A Very Good Message’

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ABC News reports:

Scrappy insurgent Rick Santorum today told ABC News that Mitt Romney’s “I like firing people who provide me services” comment might say something to voters about how the frontrunner sees the world.

“I am not too sure that is a very good message to a lot of folks out there,” Santorum said of the remark. Romney was talking about the ability of consumers to seek a new health insurance company, but coming at the same time that his tenure at Bain Capital is under scrutiny, the remark was easily seized upon by rivals as an example of his participation in leveraged buyouts of companies, resulting in thousands of fired workers.

Santorum said, “it was certainly an inarticulate way of phrasing what he wanted to phrase, but it’s a little bit of a gotcha…I am not going to make a big issue of that, I understand what he meant, we all say things a little left-handily. But obviously the way you say things left-handily can provide some insights on how you actually see things and we’ll let the American public figure that out.”

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