McCain attacks Santorum for pork barrel spending

Published January 5, 2012 5:00am ET



Anti-earmark warrior and Romney surrogate John McCain, is attacking Rick Santorum for supporting earmarking and pork barrel spending.

I respect Senator Santorum. He and I had very strong differences on earmarking and pork barrel spending. I believe that earmarking is a gateway drug to corruption. Senator Santorum supported it and engaged in it as much as he possibly could. I strongly disagreed with it. That was a fundamental difference we had in the Senate. But I still respect him.