Santorum has Romney slinging mud – literally

Rick Santorum’s latest ad has Mitt Romney (well, a very good look-a-like of Mitt Romney) literally throwing mud at the former US Senator.

It’s no secret Romney has been going more and more negative in recent weeks, especially with his numbers slipping in the must-win state of Michigan.

Santorum has apparently had enough of the mudslinging and began airing a new ad in Michigan, hoping to capitalize on Romney’s falling favor.

The ad, entitled “Rombo”,  is a tongue-in-cheek nod to the Rambo films popular in the 1980s, starring Sylvester Stallone. In it, “Rombo” (the pretty convincing  Romney look-a-like) runs around an empty warehouse, shooting a mud gun at a cardboard cutout of Santorum. The thirty-second ad ends with “Rombo” getting mud all over himself, the narrator stating, “And in the end Mitt Romney’s ugly attacks are going to backfire.”

It sounds ridiculous. And it is. But it’s also effective.

Santorum has some major momentum going. After sweeping the Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri contests (even though they were non-binding), his national numbers are climbing,

If the “Sant-mentum” keeps growing, Mitt Romney could be in big trouble, with a lot of mud on his face.

By /// February 15, 2012
About Stacey Disterhof

Stacey is the Associate Editor of Red Alert Politics - an online publication written by and for young conservatives. Red Alert Politics is a product of Clarity Media Group, the parent company of The Washington Examiner and The Weekly Standard.

She attended Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio where she studied Economics and Political Science and was an Ashbrook Scholar. Upon graduation she worked at the Leadership Institute, giving her her first taste of working in the conservative movement.

She became an Associate at Strategic Public Partners, a full-service government affairs and public relations firm and then attended Cleveland Marshall College of Law, where she realized she had no desire to be a lawyer.

While in law school she worked in non-profit fundraising and was a regular volunteer at the Ronald McDonald House of Cleveland. She's a self-admitted diet coke addict and loves the Cleveland Browns (no matter how terrible they are).

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