Rick Santorum Takes Aim at Newt Gingrich

Rick Santorum is taking aim at Republican presidential rival Newt Gingrich in a new radio ad. Santorum slams Gingrich in the ad for proposing increased money on space exploration, including his comment that he would be open to seeing the moon colonized.

Reckless spending has led to a 15 trillion-dollar national debt, the narrator of Santorums ad says. That's $50,000 of debt for every person in America ... and it's crushing our economic recovery. And what's does Newt Gingrich suggest? Spending half a trillion dollars on a moon colony.

The ad then quotes Gingrich. 'By the end of my second term we will have the first permanent base on the moon,' Gingrich says in the ad. 'When we have 13,000 living on the moon, they can petition to become a state.'

The narrator returns and continues to attack Gingrich. Gingrich's idea is fiscal insanity, the narrator says. And another reason true conservatives are uniting behind Rick Santorum. Unlike Gingrich, Santorum opposed all the bailouts. And Rick Santorum successfully reformed welfare, and has fought tirelessly for a balanced budget amendment. Rick Santorum ... he doesn't just talk a good conservative game ... he lives it.