A man who needs no introduction:
Santorum: Obama's 'Minions' Privately Told Me They Thought I Could Beat Him
Former presidential candidate Rick Santorum suggested Tuesday that Barack Obama's campaign team told him they were privately afraid the former senator could have ridden a wave of working-class votes to beat the President in the 2012 election.
Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" to promote his new book "Blue Collar Conservatives," Santorum was asked whether he thought he'd win if his family was game to launch another presidential bid. He lost the Republican nomination last time around to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R).
"Look, I thought I could have won last time," he said. "I'm convinced. You know I asked one of the Obama minions who were running the campaign 'Hey, why didn't you guys help me? I was up there battling Romney and all these folks at MSNBC were saying wouldn't this be great if Santorum were the nominee, why didn't you help me? Why didn't you go out and bang me a little a bit, hit me you know, as being too conservative?'"
"And the consensus was, 'We didn't want you, because of this,'" Santorum added, holding up his book.
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