GOP presidential hopeful Fmr. Sen. Rick Santorum (PA) slammed Rick Perry for his comment about Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke and likens the former Texas Governor to Democrat Rep. John Conyers. Transcript below:
RICK SANTORUM: Gov. Perry steps into the race and he stepped on it a couple of times already. Washington DC is not Austin and my sense is that he's gonna have a pretty good learning curve, not just on what it means to run a national campaign and have the scrutiny of the national media that he didn't have in Texas—
JOHN KING: What do you mean by he stepped on it?
SANTORUM: Well his comments about Ben Bernanke, they were completely out of bounds. I don't agree with Ben Bernanke's policies... but to me the rhetoric that Rick Perry used was sort of the rhetoric I would expect from a John Conyers, talking about President Bush and saying he should be impeached. We don't do that. We don't impeach people, we don't charge people with treason because we disagree with them on public policy. You might say that they're wrong, you might say lots of things about how misguided they are, but you don't up the ante to that type of rhetoric. It's out of place, and hopefully Gov. Perry will step back and recognize that we're not in Texas anymore.
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