Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum came under fire today for essentially criticizing President Obama’s parenting skills. Santorum got personal when he suggested the president shouldn’t have allowed his daughter Malia to vacation in Mexico because it would encouraging young people that region is safe. Huffington Post reports:
The deputy campaign manager for President Obama’s reelection bid expressed surprise Wednesday that Rick Santorum would include one of Obama’s daughters in an attack on the president.
“I think that children, for candidate purposes, have always been off-limits in presidential campaigns, and really any campaign,” said Stephanie Cutter, deputy Obama campaign manager, on Andrea Mitchell’s MSNBC show. “I’m surprised that Rick Santorum wouldn’t agree with that.”
Santorum, who has seven children of his own, on Tuesday criticized Obama for failing to “set an example” by allowing teenage daughter Malia to accompany friends to Mexico for spring break.
“When the government is saying this is not safe, you don’t set the example by sending your kids down there,” Santorum told conservative Glenn Beck.
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