Santorum on the attack in final debate with Casey
2006-10-17
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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rss feedSen. Rick Santorum attempted to seize the offensive against Democrat Bob Casey in their final debate last night, repeatedly accusing the challenger of evading questions, while Mr. Casey renewed his portrayal of the incumbent as a rubber stamp for the Bush administration.
While the Republican pursued a series of sharp attacks, the overall tone of the session was less heated than their previous televised encounter last week in Pittsburgh.
If there was little new ground in the session at the national Constitution Center it was not surprising since it was the third meeting between the pair in less than a week and the second of the day. Ten hours earlier, they had exchanged charges in a radio debate staged just blocks away in another studio.
The evening's debate, which was rebroadcast on the Pennsylvania Cable network, opened with a question on the candidates' views on Korea. Both said, in essence, that no options should be off the table in countering Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions. Mr. Casey criticized the Bush administration's record and said its foreign policy had weakened the nation's non-military options.
"All of those levers of power have been degraded by this administration,'' he said of possible diplomatic and economic steps against North Korea.
Mr. Santorum said he was against direct talks with North Korea, arguing that such an approach had failed during the Clinton administration.
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