Rick Santorum Takes Aim a Ted Cruz in New TV Ad

While he won the Iowa caucus last time out, former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Penn., is lagging in the polls behind U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, businessman Donald Trump and other Republican presidential hopefuls in the Hawkeye State. 

Santorum is trying to turn things around as he unveiled a new TV ad on Monday hitting Cruz. The new ad is being shown across Iowa.  

“Ted Cruz is wonderful at reading children's fairytales on the Senate floor,” the narrator of the ad says. “Rick Santorum spent his time in the Senate a little differently. Eight years on the Senate Armed Services Committee, helping to modernize today's army to better be prepared for today's threats. Santorum also wrote and passed tough laws putting harsh sanctions on Iran. And for more than a decade, Rick Santorum has been a leader and fighter... taking on radical Islam.”
 
The ad then quotes to Santorum saying "Not all Muslims are jihadists, but all jihadists are Muslims."
 
“You want someone to read one helluva bedtime story, Ted Cruz is your guy,” the narrator says.  “If you want to protect America, and defeat ISIS, Rick Santorum's your president. Because serious times need serious people.”

The ad can be seen here.