Rick Santorum had a pretty good week. He finished a distant fourth in the Nevada caucuses, but the turnout was so low–down nearly 25 percent from 2008–that the event became yet another indictment of the front-runner. A Rasmussen poll showed Santorum as the only Republican in the field beating Obama in a head-to-head matchup. And–as if to confirm that Santorum might be seeing some movement–the Romney campaign took time out of its still-continuing assault on Newt (they’re still going after him every day, hard)) to take a shot at Santorum.
In a Sunday press release slugged “RICK SANTORUM: PROUD DEFENDER OF EARMARKS AND PORK-BARREL SPENDING,” the Romney oppo shop dumped a list of 18 news items (dating back to 2003) trying to paint Santorum as a free spendin’, Big Government-lovin’, flip-flopper. As always, irony is tucked away on a high shelf at the Romney campaign.
