Hot Mic: Christine O’Donnell: Santorum’s ‘fiscal record is more liberal’ than Romney’s ‘social record’ [VIDEO]

Former Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell told The Daily Caller that former Sen. Rick Santorum’s “fiscal record is more liberal” than Gov. Mitt Romney’s “social record.”

TheDC asked O’Donnell if tea party members should support Santorum’s rival, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, in the Republican presidential primary.

“Absolutely. I think that if the tea party members took a closer look — a second look — at Gov. Romney’s record, they would realize that he’s with us. He was one of the first ones in in [Massachusetts Sen.] Scott Brown’s race,” she said during an interview at CPAC in Washington.

“He was the first one in in my race. I’m talking about, you know, CPAC 2010. Gov. Romney was there with me when so many conservative leaders were still sitting on the fence.”

O’Donnell told TheDC that Romney is more conservative than Santorum on fiscal issues.

“He balanced the budget in Massachusetts without raising taxes… He vetoed the embryonic stem cell research bill when you had a very liberal legislature supporting it. Now, of course his veto got overturned but he’s got the courage and convictions to do what he thinks is right,” she said.

“They [tea party] would support him more if they recognized that Sen. Santorum’s fiscal record is more liberal than Gov. Romney’s social record.”

O’Donnell encouraged tea party members to stop listening to the sound bites saying that Romney is the establishment candidate “because he’s not.” She said Romney “has a record of going against the establishment.”

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