Rick Santorum has suggested that Mitt
Romney is not anti-gay enough.
During an appearance Sunday on ABC's
This Week, Santorum laughed off claims by Romney that Santorum
and Newt Gingrich “acted like Democrats.”
“Senator Santorum and Speaker
Gingrich, they are the very Republicans who acted like Democrats, and
when Republicans act like Democrats, they lose,” Romney said on
Tuesday. “And in Newt Gingrich's case, he had to resign. In Rick
Santorum's case, he lost by the biggest margin of any Senate
incumbent since 1980.”
“Well, that's pretty funny for Mitt
Romney saying I'm acting like a Democrat,” Santorum told host
George Stephanopoulos. “You know, the question I get most often
from the national media, are you too conservative to be elected
president?”
“Why is it funny?” Stephanopoulos
interrupted.
“Well, because, I mean, you know,
Mitt Romney is the author of Romneycare, which is the biggest
government expansion in the history of the state of Massachusetts and
was the template for Obamacare. He's supported cap-and-trade and …
He was for the Wall Street bailouts. He ran as to the left of Ted
Kennedy in 1994.”
Santorum's Kennedy comment could be a
reference to Romney's pledge to gay GOP group Log Cabin Republicans
that if elected to the Senate he would do more to advance “full
equality” for gay men and lesbians than his Democratic rival, the
late Kennedy.
Santorum added that “desperate people
do desperate things.”