Santorum rallies GOP faithful in Greensburg

Former Pennsylvania senator lambastes Obama over recent actions

July 15, 2012 12:56 am

By James O'Toole?/?Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Rick Santorum denounced President Barack Obama as a politician "drunk with power" as he rallied support Saturday for Mitt Romney in the Republican stronghold of Westmoreland County.

"Just in the last few weeks, I've seen things that have even stunned me ... the hubris and the arrogance of power of this president," the former senator from Pennsylvania told a crowd of GOP partisans spilling out into the street from a Romney campaign "victory office" in Greensburg, a few blocks from the Westmoreland County Courthouse. It was Mr. Santorum's first Pennsylvania appearance on behalf of his former rival for the GOP nomination.

He accused the Obama administration of overreaching its power in the president's recent directive to ease immigration enforcement for certain young people and in an announcement from the Department of Health and Human Services last week that it would consider state-by-state waivers of the work requirement enacted with the welfare-overhaul law championed by Mr. Santorum and signed by President Bill Clinton.

The conservative also charged that the president had tried to "bully the Supreme Court" into upholding the administration's health care law.

Mr. Santorum had raised questions about the depth of his support for Mr. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, after endorsing him in a low-key email in May, but he appeared enthusiastic in backing the soon-to-be nominee in his remarks amid the crowded, overheated GOP office.

Mr. Santorum urged the crowd to rally the GOP grass roots for an election that he said would be "a tipping point for freedom."

"Pennsylvania is where it's at," he said. "We're the Keystone State. If Pennsylvania goes Republican, Mitt Romney will be the next president of the United States."

Pennsylvania Democrats greeted the Santorum appearance with statements emailed to reporters reminding them of the former senator's reported remarks during the primary battle in which he called on his then-opponent to release his tax returns. Asked about the issue after his remarks, Mr. Santorum said, "He has released his tax returns."

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