Santorum: Gingrich not a good leaderU.S. presidential candidate Rick Santorum said Sunday he believes he'd make a better leader than current GOP front-runner Newt Gingrich.
Santorum praised Gingrich as a "great teacher," and for his ability to connect with voters, but said the former speaker of the U.S. House had difficulties once he reached a position of leadership in the past.
"Three years into his speakership there was a conservative revolution to try to get rid of him as speaker," Santorum said in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union." "You know, that doesn't happen very often where you have the speaker of the House in a time when Republicans are on the ascendancy and the person who led them in large respect to that would have that kind of rebellion within the ranks among conservatives. I think that should tell you something."
Alternatively, Santorum called himself a "go-to guy" when it came to getting things done during his time as U.S. senator from Pennsylvania.
"I was a leader. If you were a conservative around this country and you wanted something done in the United States Senate you came to Rick Santorum's office, because that's where it got done whether it was national security or moral cultural, or economic, or second amendment, we were the guy that was the go-to guy to get conservative things accomplished in the United States Senate," he said on the morning television show.
"And I just think that's a very distinct difference between a conservative revolution among House members about his leadership as opposed to conservatives coming to Rick Santorum and trying to get things done in the United States Senate," Santorum added.
Now, if you have a quote from a different source where he claimed to be the go-to guy in the "coup" against Gingrich I'd like to see it.
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