“The old Rick has killed the new Rick,” Rendell said. “He gets carried away with these excesses in tone as well as substance.”
Santorum has spent much of the last two weeks answering questions about his conservative social views, a debate stirred up by his repeated claim that Obama was a waging a war on religious freedom by mandating that Catholic hospitals and universities provide access to birth control to their female employees.
“The Rick Santorum who gave the victory speech after the Iowa causes, the guy who talked about the middle class, that guy is dangerous in the Rust Belt, Michigan, Ohio and other places,” said Jeff Link, an Iowa-based Democratic political consultant active in Pennsylvania races. “The guy whose talking about contraception, the guy who was so defensive at [Wednesday night’s debate]? He’s a stone-cold loser.”
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