Santorum subirá el tono contra Romney y Paul

ABC News:

Presidential candidate Rick Santorum plans to open the final week of campaigning before voters go to the polls in South Carolina with his strongest assault yet on rivals Mitt Romney and Ron Paul.

Aides to Santorum told ABC News on Sunday that the former Pennsylvania senator is fed up with the negative attacks coming from the campaigns of those two opponents and from their allies. He will hold a press conference to make his displeasure known after his first campaign event of the day on Monday.

“It’s time for these negative, false attacks to stop — enough is enough,” Santorum’s communications director Hogan Gidley said in an interview with ABC News. “Mitt Romney and Ron Paul both tried these kinds of tactics in other states and they tried these same type of tactics four years ago. It’s time for Rick to set the record straight and tomorrow he will.”

Gidley complained specifically about mailers and robocalls “bashing Rick and distorting his record” on a variety of issues. He said his candidate will deal with those attacks “head on” following a town hall meeting he will hold early Monday morning at Lizard’s Thicket restaurant in Columbia, S.C.

Santorum previewed the fresh offensive at his second and final campaign stop on Sunday, criticizing the pro-Romney super PAC, Restore Our Future, for running an ad that hits him on earmarks and accuses the former senator of voting to give convicted felons the right to vote. (The ad also began running in Florida this week.)