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For what it’s worth (and this is just my gut) my money is on the source being the other Rick: Rick Santorum.

Santorum thinks he can get back in the race and win the nomination if he can win Iowa. He has put all his eggs in the Iowa basket.

Santorum’s desperate, and this smells like a desperate act.

Santorum has a direct attack on Cain prominently on his website. He doesn’t have the same type of attack on any of the other candidates.

Santorum has a page about Cain on his site that could only be described as a lie. It displays a question that Cain was asked (”What is your position on abortion”), but below it displays the answer to a totally different question (”If your grandchild was raped, would you force her to raise the child”).

I had a long, heated discussion over this with a Santorum supporter that turned out to be connected to the campaign, because she said she knew the person responsible for the site (mentioned them by name), couldn’t believe they would lie, and would ask them about the page that evening. The page is still up.

What that tells me is the Santorum campaign is not above spreading a lie about an opponent.

For what it’s worth, the Santorum campaign is also portraying itself as the “family values” campaign. If you were going to hit an opponent in one area that would cause the most voters to move over to Santorum, an attack on Cain’s character would be a logical move.

I agree with the latter part of the story. Whoever did release this story, if they ever get caught, is in deep ****. Voters, especially tea party voters, are not in the mood for a gutter campaign this year. There are too many serious problems, and voters want serious discussions about our problems. They don’t have the patience for gotcha games this time around.