Republican presidential candidate and former Sen. Rick Santorum has released his first ad of the 2012 campaign, a radio spot that features him talking about the national debt and the ‘immorality’ of leaving that debt to future generations.
The ad will begin airing on Monday, on national satellite radio. Later in the week, it will start airing on radio stations in the early primary states of Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
Santorum has built up an extensive ground operation in the early states and has visited each of them at least 15 times.
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“Over half of America now receives some sort of government benefits. And 40 cents of that dollar that they’re getting, they’re charging their children and grandchildren for the rest of their lives to pay the debt service on the money they’re receiving,” says Santorum in the ad. “That is immoral. That is wrong.”
“We can’t afford the government that we have right now, and we need to cut it back, across the board,” he continues.
Listen to the ad here.