Presidential candidate, Rick Santorum, has been greatly inconvenienced by the “aspirin tablet between the knees” joke by his own private millionaire, Foster Friess. First, he assumed a victim stance. Then, after all his rhetoric against birth control in recent weeks, Santorum actually tried to present himself as a birth control supporter. One has to wonder if he took lessons from Romney.

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum took a page from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s playbook on Friday and lashed out at CBS News for asking him about a major supporter who dismissed the need for contraception by saying women could put an aspirin “between their knees.”

“This is someone who is a supporter of mine and I’m not responsible for every comment a supporter of mine makes,” the candidate told CBS host Charlie Rose. “It was a bad joke. It was a stupid joke. It’s not reflective of me or my record on this issue. … This is the same gotcha politics that you get from the media.”

“Nobody said you were responsible,” Rose explained. “They said, how would you characterize it and what had you said to him, not that you were responsible? It’s to understand how you differ from what this person said.”

“This is what you guys do,” Santorum charged. “You don’t do this with President Obama. In fact with President Obama, what you did was you went out and defended him against someone who he sat in a church for — for 20 years — and defended him that, ‘Oh, he can’t possibly believe what he listened to for 20 years.’”

“It’s a double standard,” he continued. “This is what you’re pulling off, and I’m going to call you on it.”

Rose noted that as late as last October, the former Pennsylvania senator had said birth control was “not OK”… [emphasis added]