Tiny Bachmann Super PAC Stumps for Santorum

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- A small super PAC backing Rick Santorum splurged this week on political ads to help the fading GOP candidate in next month's North Carolina primary.

Keep Conservatives United spent $10,237 on Tuesday in the state for ads that opposed potential nominee Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, and supported Santorum, according to ProPublica's PAC Track, the first outward sign of support since the PAC's previous favorite, Michele Bachmann, dropped from the race.

Bob Harris, a conservative activist listed by the Federal Election Commission as the super PAC's treasurer, was listed as the contact for a March 29 post on the super PAC's Web site that called for conservatives to unite behind Santorum.

"Before the Iowa caucus, we supported Michele Bachmann, not Santorum. But she lost and now the choice is between Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney," the post said. "The Washington Republicans may well be the only people less trusted than Obama. So why on earth would we crown their guy Mitt?"

It was the first entry added to Keep Conservatives United's Web site since Oct. 31, when an administrator wrote that the leaks behind sexual harassment allegations of former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain seemed like "this kind of hit job is Rick Perry's style."

One of the ads, which is posted on the super PAC's site, attacks Romney and said that he can't run against President Barack Obama on the Affordable Care Act.

Problematic for the pro-Santorum television ads is that they launched Tuesday only in the Wilmington, N.C., market, according to keepconservativesunited.com, which represents only about 1% of the entire state's population.

Though Restore Our Future, the super PAC supporting Romney, hasn't spent a dime in North Carolina, Gingrich-backing PAC Winning Our Future has allocated funds to the Southern state of about $73,657.

Gingrich's only two primary victories came in South Carolina and Georgia -- his home state -- political territories somewhat similar to North Carolina.

Harris didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

-- Written by Joe Deaux in New York.