Mitt Romney Takes Aim at Rick Santorum

With Rick Santorum being his only competition on the ballot in Missouri and with a poll showing him leading in Minnesota -- both states hold presidential primaries on Tuesday -- Mitt Romneys team unleashed an attack against him over the weekend.

Rick Santorum is part of the big-spending Washington establishment that ran up the national debt by trillions and stuck our grandchildren with the bill, said Andrea Saul, a spokeswoman for Romney. His ardent and passionate defense of earmarks is not something that fiscal conservatives are looking for in our next president. Mitt Romney supports a smaller, simpler, and smarter government that cuts spending and frees us from the debt and deficits that politicians like Rick Santorum have created.