It’s still early in the presidential race, but the rhetoric is already heating up, as former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum demonstrated Tuesday with a remark about Attorney General Eric Holder.
Santorum, who is seeking the Republican nomination, disagrees with Holder’s stance that suspected terrorists ought to be tried in civilian courts. Santorum could have said, “I respectfully disagree with the Attorney General,” or something similarly bland.
But he didn’t. “He must be under some influence because he certainly isn’t thinking clearly,” Santorum said Tuesday, amplifying remarks he made Monday at a campaign stop in Iowa. “Maybe he is eating mushrooms.”
“His speech in Iowa on Monday attacked the Obama administration over terrorism strategy and the use of civilian courts in particular,” The Hill reported, citing an account in The Des Moines Register. The Register said the administration’s approach amounted to “giving terrorists your constitutional rights,” and that it is “truly frightening that we have leaders in this country that believe that.”
