Santorum Gets Romney Off His Game

Rick Santorum challenged Mitt Romney on the issue of giving felons who served their time the right to vote.

Santorum said he supported allowing rehabilitated convicts the right to vote, calling it a civil rights issue, especially in the African American community — and he invoked the memory of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. to that effect.

He then asked Romney what his position was on the issue — in a clearly pre-planned line of attack. When Romney tried to evade by saying he can’t control what his Super PAC does, Santorum cut him off, pressing him to answer the original question.

“This is actually my time. Answer the question,” Santorum said, interrogating Romney.

Romney finally relented, saying “I don’t think people who committed violent crimes should be allowed to vote again.”

But Santorum had another attack up his sleeve, noting that while Romney was governor in Massachusetts his state’s policies were more liberal — he also asserted that Romney never tried to change the law to keep violent offenders from voting again, even before their sentences were completed.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.