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Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum fanned the flames of controversy surrounding the suggestion by Mitt Romney advise Eric Fehrnstrom that the former governor could reset "like an Etch A Sketch" after the primary election was over, with both candidates producing the popular toy during a campaign stops in Louisiana Wednesday afternoon.

Gingrich, who was speaking in Lake Charles, La., handed the toy to a boy in the front row of his event and quipped, "you can now be a presidential candidate."

Santorum, meanwhile, argued that voters were looking for someone "who writes what they believe in stone," and not an "Etch a Sketch candidate" during a stop in Mandeville, La.

Romney's opponents have seized on the remarks, saying they underscored the notion that Romney was willing to compromise his principles to curry favor with conservatives.

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