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Rick Santorum called Mitt Romney a hypocrite Saturday for accepting a federal earmark to help save the Salt Lake City Olympic Games - Romney's signature achievement - while airing ads critical of Santorum's role securing earmarks for Pennsylvania when he served as senator.

"He heroically showed up on the scene and bailed out and resolved the problems of the Salt Lake City Olympic Games," Santorum said, according to the Washington Post. "He heroically bailed out the Salt Lake Olympic Games by heroically going to Congress and asking them for tens of millions of dollars to bail out the Salt Lake Olympic Games. In an earmark. In an earmark for the Salt Lake Olympic Games.”

“Does the word hypocrisy come to mind?” Santorum added, noting that the GOP's last presidential nominee - Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) - "called it potentially the worst boondoggle in earmark history."

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