Santorum likens Obama administration to "drug dealer"
March 5, 2012 10:59 AM
By Rebecca Kaplan
BROKEN ARROW, Okla. - Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum compared the Obama administration to a drug dealer who wants to get Americans hooked on entitlement programs to expand his power.
Santorum said the president's health care law in a new addictive drug.
"That's how they see you, as people, to get hooked like a drug dealer, someone to become dependent on them and once that happens, they got you," Santorum said during a speech to several hundred people at Grace Church late Sunday. "America is changed forever. No country that has socialized medicine has ever gone back the other way, no country that has lost its freedom has ever regained it."
In 2010, Santorum made a similar statement about President Obama, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid - all Democrats -- in a speech to the Pennsylvania Republican State Committee's dinner, according to the website Buzzfeed. Santorum is well known for his biting, sometimes over-the-top political rhetoric, which has prompted members of his own party to question his electability in a fall matchup with Obama.
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