"Dirty Politics...I expect that from Barack Obama. I don’t ever expect it from a Republican.” [View all]

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Santorum accuses Romney of playing 'dirty politics'

“Gov. Romney, out there playing a recording from four years ago, and suggesting that I’m endorsing him, is another example of Gov. Romney misleading the public about my record and what I believe in,” Santorum told reporters as he left a town-hall-style meeting on the warship.

“It’s dirty politics, and I expect that from Barack Obama. I don’t ever expect it from a Republican.”

A supporter, state Sen. Larry Grooms, joined Santorum in denouncing Romney. “When a man running for the highest office of the nation sanctions a phone call where one of his opponents does a fake endorsement, something’s wrong with that,” he said.

Unfazed, Romney campaign spokesman Ryan Williams provided the full text of the robocall.

“We were very pleased to have Sen. Santorum’s endorsement of Gov. Romney last campaign and his advocacy of Gov. Romney as ‘the candidate who will stand up for the conservative principles that we hold dear,’” Williams said in an email.

More here: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-santorum-accuses-romney-of-playing-dirty-politics-20120117,0,853713.story