Santorum attacks attack ads

>>> rick santorum has launched a new attack ad today in michigan, painting romney as a gun toting mud slinking rombo, watch.

>> mitt romney 's negative attack ad machine is back. this time he is firing at rick santorum . romney has attacked fellow republicans.

>> alice stewart is national press secretary for the santorum campaign. many of us know you from earlier campaigns but it's great to see you.

>> great to be here.

>> let's talk about the ad war in michigan. you are being out spent so far, we do not know whether there's going to be a big buy , but the portion of ads so par is romney out spending santorum . but santorum said he would not go negative and that was a pretty tough attack ad .

>> well, just to clarify, this is not a negative ad, this is a response ad. what we are saying is that mitt romn romney does what he does when he sees somebody is past him in the polls. he goes negative. and it worked against newt gingrich because the negative ads are factually correct. he is saying that rick is liberal fiscally and nothing is further than the truth. rick has been out spoken on limited government, cutting expensing. he was a tea party before there was a tea party . and you recall, andrea, you have been in washington for many years. he was one of the gang of seven that fought taxpayer abuses, do away with the fraud that we saw with the congressional post office , he has been big on cutting spending. head of the balanced budget amendment fight and welfare reforms. welfare to work. these are things that are fiscally conservative and something that rick santorum is proud of. he has a long record of being strong on fiscal issues.

>> you portray the opponent carrying a gun. that is a negative ad, isn't it?

>> we talk about him being a mud slinker, and we cannot mistake that he can do fancy ads and have fast planes and a big staff. but he cannot rewrite hiflt, mitt romney is the classic liberal candidate in this race. he is toe to toe with obama 's issues. he supported cap and trade and the wall street bail outs. these are issues that he cannot fight obama on these. because he has stood toe to toe with obama on those issues that people oppose.

>> what about the women 's supporters and women 's vote. rick santorum in his book, it take as family, you know the quotation, the radical feminists succeeded in under mining the traditional family convincing women that professional accomplishments are the key to success and then he on cnn talked about women in combat . he said he has concerns, he thinks it could be a compromising situation where people will do things that are not in the interest of the mission because of the other types of eemotions involved.

>> this raises the question as to whether his views about women and women in the workplace are out dated?

>> absolutely not. he has been extremelily respectful to me, on the part women on the staff. he has been happily married, he respectful of women 's issues. he has a lot of women in his office and as he was in washington, they have spoken up and saying he was respectful of them when they had children, allowing them to work. and in terms of the military, the statements he made, he clarified that just a bit in referring to, he was actually concerned about the emotions of men on the front lines . given that their natural teaming would be to try to protect the women more. he is trying to say, he respects men and alike, but in terms of the hype that the opponents are putting out there, that he is not respectful of women and their place in society is false. and i'm living proof of it. he has given me a great position on his campaign and i'm proud to stand on the front lines and speak up for him.

>> he said only last fall about contraception, let's watch.

>> one of the things i'll talk about, that no president has talked about before, is the dangers of contraception in the country. sexual liberty idea that many in the christian faith have said, it's okay, contraception is okay. it's not okay. it's a license to do things in the sexual world that is counter to how things are supposed to be.

>> that his view that contraception is a license to give people a chance to do thing this is that should not be so?e

>> certainly he is a man of great faith and has his personal view on contraception, but he believes it's a issue that should be left up to the states. and as president he will do things about what people ask him on the campaign trail. he will in detroit tomorrow to talk about the detroit economic club and talk about issues that they ask him about every day, what will he do to create an environment for businesses to create jobs and turn the economy around. that is what he plans to dos as president.

>> alice, it's great to see you,