Give him some credit, at least Rick Santorum didn't say 'welfare queens'

It's not that the others would shy away from doing what Rick Santorum did Sunday. That was to raise the specter of African Americans leeching off the taxpayers when they should be getting jobs. You can't exactly call it a dog-whistle since the message was loud and clear to everyone.

It just keeps expanding—I was in Indianola a few months ago and I was talking to someone who works in the department of public welfare here, and she told me that the state of Iowa is going to get fined if they don't sign up more people under the Medicaid program," Santorum said. They're just pushing harder and harder to get more and more of you dependent upon them so they can get your vote. That's what the bottom line is.

He added: "I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money; I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money.

Right," responded one audience member, as another woman can be seen nodding.

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