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Santorum: Romney Not Being ‘Truthful’ With American People

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GETTY P 030812 Santorum?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1331199044999Jessica McGowan/Getty Images(JACKSON, Miss.) — ”Are we going to win here?” Rick Santorum asked an excited crowd in Mississippi Wednesday evening at a rally ahead of the state’s primary next week.

The candidate touted his Super Tuesday wins and tried to define Mitt Romney as a candidate willing to mislead the American public.

“I never supported a government mandate unlike two other candidates in this race who will be coming here,” Santorum said referring to Romney and Newt Gingrich, before singling out Romney.  “One of them went as far as to impose it upon his people in Massachusetts.  And then bragged about how it should be adopted in Washington and worse yet, repeatedly in every single debate told the American public something that was simply not true.”

As he has since a 2009 op-ed came to light where Romney recommended part of his signature health care law as a national model, Santorum tried to define the former Massachusetts governor as someone who can’t be trusted, and compared him to President Obama.

“He told the American public repeatedly, ‘Oh no, I never did that.  I never recommended that Romneycare be used as a national model for Obamacare just parts of it.’  We find now in the last two weeks that’s wrong,” Santorum said to cheers from a crowd of about 300 at a local museum.  “There’s a final thing: when you don’t have the courage to stand up and tell the truth about what you did.  Ladies and gentleman, we already have someone in office who is not being truthful with the American public on a variety of different things.  We don’t want to run somebody who has the same problem.”

Santorum also responded to the Romney campaign’s charge earlier Wednesday at a delegate briefing they held for reporters that only an “act of God” could bring Santorum or Gingrich the Republican nomination.

“Well I don’t know about you Gov. Romney, but I think it was a blessing and an act of God for us to even be on this stage tonight and I thank God for that.  I feel very blessed I really do,” Santorum said.  “This campaign hasn’t been about negative advertising and carpet bombing, trying to tear down your opponents.  It’s one of the reasons we continue to just hang in there, it’s because we are connecting, not because everyone agrees with what I’m saying, but people know what I’m saying is what I truly believe is right for this country.”

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