2012 Republican campaign gets less polite

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By NANCY BENAC
Associated Press
2011-07-13 02:20 PM

... "I like Congresswoman Bachmann," Pawlenty said on NBC television. "I've campaigned for her. I respect her. But her record of accomplishment in Congress is nonexistent. It's nonexistent." ...

"When you look at absolute increases in job creation, Utah led the way in the United States in terms of job creation," Huntsman, who recently left his post as Obama's ambassador to China, said during an appearance Monday in South Carolina. "Compare it and contrast it with certain other states like, we'll say, Massachusetts, that I'll just pull out randomly. Not first; but 47th." ...

Santorum, meanwhile, took a jab recently at Huntsman, who's made much of his love of riding motorcycles. A Santorum Web ad shows a motorcyclist soaring through the air and then crashing in the dirt, and flashes these words on the screen: "Hasn't signed the anti-abortion pledge. Just like Mitt Romney."

Sarah Palin ... took some swipes at Romney during a May bus tour, criticizing his health care plan in Massachusetts and questioning his appeal to small government, anti-tax tea party members ...

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