Rick Santorum took Ron Paul to task for running innaccurate campaign ads against him in South Carolina.
Watch below as I interview Santorum ( and his wife Karen) about the nasty fight to come in South Carolina. This interview was done Tuesday afternoon in Bedford, N.H.
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David Brody: South Carolina, real quick. I need to ask you, boy, talk about dirty politics. The state has a history of this. You ready for this, because it’s going to get nasty. We already know Newt and Romney, they’ve got their thing.
Rick Santorum: Yeah, Ron Paul is putting his sights on me. He did it in Iowa. He’s doing it here with the negative robo-calls. And also with the ads now in S.C. A one minute ad, attacking both Newt and me. It’s just full of things that are inaccurate and saying that I’m, as these robo-calls, that I’m not pro-life.
I mean. How do you make the argument that I’m not pro-life? But that’s what he’s doing, and he’s saying that I’m not for the Second Aamendment. A+ rating with the NRA, I’ve been a stalwart Second Amendment defender. I don’t mind if you attack me where, say he voted for No Child Left Behind. True. I apologized. I just made a mistake. And I’ve publicly talked about that a lot. I’m not perfect. I’ve made some mistakes.
But here’s the difference, I didn’t go out and advocate for No Child Left Behind. I didn’t lead the charge. I held my nose for the president’s highest priority, and something that was very important to him and his presidency, and I put loyalty above some of the things that I thought were wrong with that bill, and it was a mistake. But, don’t go out and say that Rick Santorum is out there promoting No Child Left Behind.
I wrote a book shortly after there saying that this was not one of my best votes, and I realized it early on, but you make mistakes, and you do things for different reasons, and I owned up to it and I’m going to be honest with people but the negativity of this race, I’ve tried to draw a contrast, but try to be respectful in doing so, and trying to not get negative or nasty or saying negative things about the person. You can draw a contrast about what they did, what they advocated for, but not about the person.