Mitt Romney Questions Newt Gingrich's and Rick Santorum's Conservative Credentials

After losing out to Rick Santorum in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri on Tuesday, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney took aim at both Santorum and fellow GOP rival Newt Gingrich on Wednesday. Romneys team hammered both Santorum and Gingrich for their records in Washington on spending.

Speaker Gingrich and Senator Santorum have over half a centurys worth of time in Washington between them, Andrea Saul, a spokeswoman for Romney, said on Wednesday. They cant fix our countrys spending problem because they helped create it. While Newt Gingrich may have opened the door to the abuse of earmark spending, Rick Santorum walked right through it. He renounced his belief that deficits are bad and voted to raise the debt ceiling by trillions -- all while supporting billions in pork-barrel spending in Pennsylvania and across the country. That is not a record that fiscal conservatives will embrace once they know the facts.