Santorum aide admits gaffe on Obama’s ‘radical Islamic policies’

Washington -  Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s spokeswoman Alice Stewart has admitted that she misspoke during a TV interview on Monday in which she said  that Santorum was referring to President Barack Obama’s “radical Islamic policies” when he actually said the president’s agenda was driven by “phony theology”.

“There is a type of theological secularism when it comes to the global warmists in this country. That’s what he was referring to. He was referring to the president’s policies in terms of the  radical Islamic policies the president has,” Stewart said on “Andrea Mitchell Reports.”

The Politico later quoted Mitchell, as saying that Stewart phoned the show after the interview to say she had slipped up and said “radical Islamic policies” instead of Obama’s “radical  environmental policies.”

Mitchell noted she had missed Stewart’s phrasing of “radical Islamic policies” during the live interview.

Santorum said in Ohio on Saturday that Obama’s agenda is “not about you. It’s not about your quality of life. It’s not about your jobs. It’s about some phony ideal, some phony theology. Oh, not  a theology based on the Bible, a different theology, but no less a theology.”

Santorum stood by his remarks later, telling reporters he wasn’t suggesting Obama is less of a Christian.