Santorum campaign suggests Mitt Romney may have done deal to make Ron Paul his running mate

After tonight's debate, in which Ron Paul and Mitt Romney repeatedly attacked Rick Santorum over his 16-year record in Congress, the former US Senator for Pennsylvania hinted that something nefarious was going on.

"You have to ask Congressman Paul and Governor Romney what they've got going together," Santorum told reporters in the spin room in Mesa, Arizona. "Their commercials look a lot alike and so do their attacks."

Santorum's top strategist John Brabender went even further, charging that the two men had "joined forces" and were coordinating attacks against his man

"Clearly there's a tag team strategy between Ron Paul and Mitt Romney. For all I know, Mitt Romney might be considering Ron Paul as his running mate. Clearly there is now an alliance between those two and you saw that certainly in the debate."

The was also coordination in their attack ads, he charged. "Ron Paul for all practical purposes has pulled out of Michigan. Correct? Where's he running negative ads against Rick Santorum? Michigan.

"It was interesting to me that if you watch Ron Paul when he came into the debate, he wrote negative things about Rick Santorum down because when he started to get questions he would immediately pick up his paper and start mentioning Santorum stuff."

Somebody has to stand up and say it and take a stance.

Yes, and that is exactly the roll of the Christian church...not the Government.

I have said before and will say again...Obama has nothing to stand on in his record and has been firing up to use religious talking points to further divide this nation...From Reid, to Pelosi, to Obama, they are all using "religious" talking points and baiting everyone for a religious debate as this moves along...and making it a central issue in this election.

You can imagine how they will divide this nation between Protestants, Catholics, Mormons and we are seeing this roll now thru the media.

It is not the roll of politicians nor government to dictate our beliefs or bombast us for what we believe. But if we continue to make this a focus it will divert away from the very real issues of our economy and the status of our country and it's peril....and certainly play into Obamas agenda to divide this country.

I would love our country to come back to Christian principles and morality....but that IS the work of the churches to "change" the hearts of men thru the inner working of Christ Jesus....not the Congress or the President.

Do we honestly believe we need a politician to tell us the condition of the morals of this country????? We all are faced with it daily...nobody needs to be told...but we do need candidates willing to provide the environment where the churches can operate freely to do their job.

This means voting for those who understand the freedom of religion in this country....and that's a freedom to be Protestant ,to be something other than Catholic as Santorum preaches... and he is wrong to attack the Protestant churches when his own church has yet to rid itself of the pedophile and homosexual Priests.

So no...I do not want our politicians calling people out on what they believe....it's just going to be used by Obama to start a religious division among us.

Somebody has to stand up and say it and take a stance.

Yes, and that is exactly the roll of the Christian churches...not the Government.

You can imagine how they will divide this nation between Protestants, Catholics, Mormons and we are seeing this roll now thru the media.

So no...I do not want our politicians calling people out on what they believe....it's just going to be used by Obama to start a religious division among us.

Actually, I supported Herman Cain. He was my very first choice for President, out of the chute, in summer of last year when he announced. I had Perry near the top of the list but no higher than people like Bachmann, or Gingrich for that matter at the time, and of course right now, the strongest anti-Romney candidate IMHO particularly in the next four days to take down the ROMNEY (RINO) - PAUL (ANARCHIST) Anti-Conservative Coalition of the Silly, in two states, whom the mass media and White House despise: Rick Santorum. Particularly, it is crunch time now as ROMNEY MUST BE STOPPED IN MICHIGAN AND ARIZONA FOLKS--THIS IS THE SOUTHERN MOST RIDGE ON LITTLE ROUND TOP AT GETTYSBURG and poll-wise and otherwise, the plain facts are that Rick Santorum is the man to do that, otherwise, guess what, we end up what we have ALL been barfing up on FR for the last three years and that was the prospect of Mitt Romney as the Nominee of this party. But I guess some people won't mind that, i.e. Romney as the Nominee, just as long as "St. Rick" (sic), or "Little Ricky" (sic), is taken down. I hope they can sleep at night as we roll into Super Tuesday with an unstoppable Bishop Romney and a totally satisfied RINO/elite GOP country club leadership licking their chops in victory.

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