Santorum defends attacking Obama on pornography, Iran

WSJ -- GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum on Sunday defended his escalating attacks against President Barack Obama, who he said was going easy on pornographers and the government of Iran.

The former Pennsylvania senator backed up his website’s assertions that the Obama administration “seems to favor pornographers over children and families” because it has “refused to enforce obscenity laws.”

The Obama administration hasn’t as prosecuted pornography cases as “rigorously” as the administration of former President George W. Bush, Mr. Santorum said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“They have not put a priority on prosecuting those cases and in doing so they are exposing children to a tremendous amount of harm,” Mr. Santorum said. His campaign posted its stance on pornography online after people wrote in asking where he stood, Mr. Santorum explained on ABC’s “This Week.”

The presidential candidate also defended calling Mr. Obama the “appeaser-in chief around the world with evil,” saying he was taking the president to task for not acting boldly enough to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons.

Mr. Santorum declined to directly answer the question of whether he would drop out of the campaign if it became clear he couldn’t gather enough delegates to secure the GOP nomination before the party’s convention. “We’ll wait and see, we’re in this to win,” Mr. Santorum said on CNN Sunday, as Republicans in Puerto Rico prepared to go to the polls.