Rick Santorum's Team Hits Mitt Romney on Environmental Issues

With Mitt Romney having caught their candidate in Michigan, the team behind Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum hammered the former Massachusetts governor on Tuesday for his record on environmental issues.

Government health-care mandates, the big bank bailout and governmental takeover of religious freedoms are just a few of the issues where Mitt Romney has joined Barack Obama, said Hogan Gidley, a spokesman for Santorum. And now we find out that radical environmentalism is no different. Governor Romney actually bought into and even supported the radical environmentalists' movement to pass job-crushing 'cap and tax' legislation. Studies show that if Mitt Romney had his way, and his legislation would've been passed nationwide -- for Michigan -- as many as 90,800 jobs would've been lost.

Gidley contrasted his take on Romneys record with Santorums.

Rick Santorum has never bought into the radical left's junk science, and has instead stood by the revolutionary American doctrine based on free people and free markets, Gidley insisted. Rick Santorum has stood up for opening the tundra of the North Slope of Alaska for drilling, exploring for natural gas, and expediting the approval of the Keystone Pipeline. The memory of his coal-mining grandfather instilled in him the ideal that America can use its bare hands to dig for greatness, and he firmly believes that our industrial base can be great again."