Rick Santorum's Team Continues to Fire Away at Rick Perry

With Gov. Rick Perry of Texas continuing to retreat on issuing an executive order mandating school girls to be vaccinated for a sexually transmitted disease, the team behind a fellow Republican presidential candidate -- former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania -- is claiming some of the credit. During a debate in Tampa on Monday night, Santorum showed no hesitation to take aim at Perry on a host of issues, including the vaccines.

"I'm glad Governor Perry is finally listening to Rick Santorum -- and now understands a conservative position: that the government takeover of a 12-year-old girl's body is a bad idea, said Hogan Gidley, a spokesman for Santorum, late Wednesday. Hopefully Senator Santorum can now get Governor Perry to flip his position on building a border fence, giving special tuition rates for children of illegals, and supporting gay marriage at the state level."