Posted on 03/24/2012 10:20:26 PM PDT by Steelfish
Santorum Pounds Romney As He Opens Wisconsin Campaign
By Michael Finnegan March 24, 2012 (snip)
Wisconsin's April 3 contest offers Santorum a chance to break the pattern set by Romney and his allies in Michigan, Ohio and Illinois. In each state, they buried Santorum's insurgent campaign with an onslaught of attack ads. The Romney machinery is already fully engaged in Wisconsin, airing ads from Milwaukee and Green Bay on Lake Michigan to La Crosse on the upper Mississippi River.
So Santorum, far outspent once again, opened his latest campaign for a big prize in the Midwest with a scathing verbal assault on Romney. The former Pennsylvania senator also vowed solidarity with Wisconsin's embattled Republican governor, Scott Walker, the target of a recall drive sparked by his high-drama dispute with public-employee unions.
"It's great to be here in the center of the political wars, here in Wisconsin," Santorum told hundreds of conservatives at a Milwaukee gathering of the Americans for Prosperity Foundation.
Santorum dismissed Romney as a "financier from Wall Street" and reminded the crowd twice that he -– unlike the well-to-do former Massachusetts governor -- "grew up in a steel town" in western Pennsylvania. Republicans, Santorum said, want a nominee "who identifies with them."
Santorum also used President Obama as a foil to establish his own cultural affinity with Wisconsin Republicans. He recalled the 2008 dustup when Obama told campaign donors in San Francisco that small-town Americans embittered by job losses cling to religion and guns out of their frustrations.
"You're darn right we cling to our guns and our Bibles, because we believe in those things," Santorum said. A roar of applause filled the room.
Santorum's main focus, though, was Romney's conservative credentials, which he portrayed as bogus. The latest evidence o
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