Santorum wins debate, but Romney beats Newt
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"Santorum didn't just offer a grazing attack of Romneycare like many other candidates have in prior debates. He got very specific. He noted that it was top-down government control -- from the mandate forcing individuals to purchase health insurance to the expansion of Medicaid. And when Romney tried to wiggle away, and defended the individual mandate making the same arguments as President Obama, Santorum pinned him down, explaining all the problems with the health care system in Massachusetts under the law. Romney's response to Santorum's passionate case against government-run health care was to say, “It’s not worth getting angry about,” which was a dagger in the back of conservatives who have spent the last several years fighting a government takeover of the largest (and most personal) sector of the U.S. economy. It was a clear reminder to conservatives of why they've been so reluctant to get behind Romney to the point that they'd be considering the deeply flawed Gingrich.
Besides sticking it to Romney, Santorum had strong answers on almost every question -- on Latin America, on not throwing away too much money on the space program, and on why rights are God-given rather than granted by government."
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