On Tuesday alone, the Republican presidential candidate branded Mitt Romney a liberal, said Newt Gingrich's policy positions have been "all over the place" and laughed that Ron Paul has been running for president "since 1938."
The more acerbic tone comes as the South Carolina primary looms on Saturday and with polls showing Santorum trailing Romney and other rivals.
In the effort to claw his way to the front of the pack, Santorum coupled his scathing critiques of his rivals on the campaign trail with a new TV ad that compares Romney to President Barack Obama.
"Obama supported the Wall Street bailouts. So did Romney. Obama gave us radical Obamacare that was based on Romneycare," the ad's narrator says. "Obama's a liberal on social issues. Romney once bragged he's even more liberal than Ted Kennedy on social issues."
The ad then asks: "Why would we ever vote for someone who is just like Obama?"
Santorum urged South Carolina conservatives to coalesce around one of their own.
"He's got a lot of money, but he doesn't have the convictions, the authenticity nor the record that is necessary to win this election," Santorum said.
He also said Gingrich wasn't the best conservative option.
"Newt is bold, but he is all over the place," Santorum said. "Attacking capitalism, supporting capitalism. Against global warming, for global warming."
Santorum, often sarcastic as a campaigner, offered this explanation for how Paul, 76, had bested him in the nation's first primary: "Congressman Paul had been running in New Hampshire for president since 1938."
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