Santorum takes on the EPA -- By Don Surber, Daily Mail

In 2000, West Virginia flipped Republican, voting for a non-incumbent Republican presidential candidate for the first time since 1928 — and the Mountain State is not turning back. There were two reasons the Coal State flipped: fears of gun control and the EPA. A state built on the cheap energy provided by coal (as well as oil and natural gas) did not trust Al Gore’s EPA even before he became the great white ManBearPig hunter.

With fracking for natural gas going heavy in job-challenged eastern Ohio as well as Pennsylvania and West Virginia, Rick Santorum is taking a page from President Bush 43′s campaign book and smacking President Obama’s EPA upside the head.

You go, Rick! I have been saying that Pennsylvania is Obama’s Achilles heel and Santorum is aiming at it. If Pennsylvania flips, so will Ohio. And the results may haunt Democrats for many presidential elections to come.

And please note, he is attacking Obama — on the economy, I might add — instead of his fellow Republican.

The Associated Press report:

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Rick Santorum says President Barack Obama is pushing a radical environmental agenda that unwisely limits energy production and turns its back on science. Santorum told voters in eastern Ohio on Monday that science is on the side of those who want to aggressively produce more oil and natural gas in America. He said the notion of global warming is not climate science but “political science.”

Santorum said Obama and his allies want to frighten people about new oil-exploration technologies so they can get your dollars and turn it over to politicians to win elections “so they can control your lives.”

Ohio’s GOP primary is March 6. Santorum also planned several campaign appearances later Monday in Michigan. Voters there go to the polls on Feb. 28.

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