Rick Santorum: Obama, Mitt Romney Have Joined Forces In Attack

Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum is claiming rival Mitt Romney and President Obama have teamed up to attack him.

Santorum said the former Massachusetts governor and Obama "have joined forces" in an email to supporters Saturday:

With Rick Santorum surging in the polls, Romney and his Super PAC unleashed millions of dollars of disgusting negative attack ads against Rick Santorum. Evidently Obama is also concerned, because he and his campaign have joined with Romney and are also brutally attacking Rick.

Clearly, the dramatic rise of Rick Santorum has made moderate Romney and liberal Obama very nervous. And you can be sure they will be spending record amounts of money to try and distort Rick’s record.

The Obama campaign originally kept its focus on Romney, but with Santorum's recent surge, the reelection team seems to be readying attacks against the former Pennsylvania senator.

The Obama campaign's Pennsylvania office sent an email to supporters Thursday asking them for their "recollections" of Santorum's time in the state Senate, noting that his "extreme-right social views are as out of touch as they are memorable." Obama's reelection team in Chicago has also begun digging into Santorum's background, the Washington Post reports.

This morning's email isn't the first time Santorum has rallied against Obama. The GOP hopeful has consistently hit Obama while on the campaign trail in Ohio, saying Obama's failed policies have ruined the country.

Comments

[Liviu]

01:52 PM on 02/21/2012

I don't care, Romney is still the front runner... with santorum trailing behind. Watch out!

[AmericanCynic]

11:04 PM on 02/19/2012

Is Michelle Bachmann Rick Santorum's speech writer now?

[Stan DaMann]

07:56 PM on 02/19/2012

Since the TV age entered Presidential politics (1960 election), "weird" has never won the election, and neither has "nerd". The "cooler" candidate always wins over the independents, and ergo the election.

Obama running against Pope Santorum would be like the Fonz running against Richie Cunningham. Fuggetaboutit, Ricky.

[Real12]

04:05 PM on 02/19/2012

And everyone makes fun of the sweatervest on Huff Po! Waaah!

[trron9]

12:54 PM on 02/19/2012

Obama/ Romney vs. Santorum! Finally bipartisanship! Reminds of a Uncle of mine, oh he can dish it out, but the moment you come back with a witty response he's offended! Imagine Santorum as President having to deal with crisis, world leaders, Congress, the Senate who may oppose his views? Some folks just don't handle opposition well, wrong guy to lead our country!

[TexianLife]

11:12 AM on 02/19/2012

Creepy Santorum: You are running for President. There will be opposition. That's how campaigns work. You are delusional, paranoid & a major pervert.

[Lindytindy]

11:06 AM on 02/19/2012

What we need is to quickly pass a law that makes it mandatory for candidates to have a psychological evaluation. If they are nuts, they are not qualified to run the country.

[mrJJ]

10:12 AM on 02/19/2012

Foster Friess, Santorum backer says: Rich shouldn’t have to pay taxes,

http://blogs.reuters.com/chrystia-freeland/2012/02/17/rich-shouldn%E2%80%99t-have-to-pay-taxes-santorum-backer-says/

[Earl King]

10:03 AM on 02/19/2012

I'm a conservative...but their is no way hell a guy who says "contraception is bad", "protestants have left mainstream Christianity" is going to get elected in america. My fellow Chistians and Conservatives will not vote for such an idiot.

[Sammmo]

09:49 AM on 02/19/2012

No wonder the fine people of Pennsylvania rejected this dude, Santorum. He is a religious and sexual pervert!

[TexianLife]

11:10 AM on 02/19/2012

He's a definite pervert.

[jezoebel]

09:10 AM on 02/19/2012

Oh Rick, welcome to being the frontrunner. Did you REALLY think you'd be treated with kid gloves once you surged in the polls? Now that all eyes are on you, what do you have to talk about besides giving anti-sex, anti-women, anti-gay, anti-nonChristian, anti-immigrant, pro-sweatervest speeches?

[centsable]

08:51 AM on 02/19/2012

This is what happens when you try for front runner status, you get attacked. Can't take it Rick, how can you handle the three am call.

[exhale09]

08:31 AM on 02/19/2012

Right Rick, Obama and MITT are joined "together" in a "conspiracy" against you.

Looks like Ricky has been taking classes at Palin-U....Delusional paranoia and VICTIMHOOD 101.

[chris hatala]

05:56 AM on 02/19/2012

Dicky are you off your anti-psychotic medications again?

[Grada3784]

05:43 AM on 02/19/2012

Hopefully we're not going to get 8 months of The Professional Victim,

[tin soldier]

09:03 AM on 02/19/2012

We still have 8 months to go with the professional victim.
It's Bushs fault,I inherited this,I didn't know how bad it was ,I'm being targeted because of racism.
Who could possibly be more of a "victim" then The victim in chief, OBAMA

[ryanwi]

09:41 AM on 02/19/2012

Apparently just about every Republican.

[Grada3784]

01:25 PM on 02/19/2012

Tet you so conviebetly forget when the Republicans did the same thing with Clinton. The things you accuse the Dems of, the Republicans are just as guilty.

However, the paranoia of the Pennsylvania Pimple goes far beyond anything done before.