Dave Mustaine endorses Rick Santorum
February 16th, 2012 - 8:23 pm ICT by Aishwarya BhattLos Angeles, Feb 16 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Rick Santorum’s presidential aspiration got a major boost this week when Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine endorsed him for the Presidency. Santorum is currently among the forerunners in the GOP race which has become very unpredictable.
Mustaine revealed that he will prefer “whatever is in the White House next year is a Republican,” but was skeptical about some of the GOP frontrunners. He thinks Newt Gingrich has lost his temper in the race. He also condemned Rick Romney indicating that when he learnt about his $100 million trust fund for his five sons, he could not trust him.
On Santorum, Mustaine said that, “I was completely oblivious as to who Rick Santorum was, but when the dude went home to be with his daughter when she was sick, that was commendable… Also, just watching how he hasn’t gotten into doing the horrible, horrible attack ads like Mitt Romney’s done against Newt Gingrich, and then the volume at which Newt has gone back at Romney… You know, I think Santorum has presidential qualities.”
Santorum shocked several analysts when he gained enough momentum at the right time to win the Iowa caucus earlier in the year. Last week, Santorum saw his campaign further boosted by winning the Colorado & Minnesota Caucuses.
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