- otus
- June 11, 2012
AC
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio has a passionate following of conservatives urging Mitt Romney to choose him as his running mate. Rick Santorum does not seem nearly as enthusiastic about the possible vice presidential contender. During an interview on Glenn Beck's radio show Monday, Santorum praised Rubio as an "articulate spokesman" and a "great future leader," but couched his remarks with concern about Rubio's legislative record. "He represents different constituencies in Florida than I do, and there's some issues we don't necessarily see eye-to-eye on," Santorum said when asked if he thought Rubio was "a true small government conservative." "But look, my sense is that listening to him and hearing him talk and following him in his career, that he is understood like a lot of folks do that we've gone through these last four or five years, that we're reaching a point where things that he may have been able to go along with in the past just simply aren't viable." Santorum, who...