Just before the start of the holiday weekend, Rick Santorum gave a thoughtful and wide-ranging interview in Michigan.  Over the course of 25 minutes, he discussed Iran (4:05-6:55), saying, “Israel shouldn’t be leading this. This is a national security issue for the United States…we should be leading this.”  He discussed his spending record (8:14-11:31):  “I look at the things that they’re hitting us on, and they’re almost laughable.” He discussed Obamacare (13:33-15:22):  “I don’t think the government should be mandating coverages.”  And when asked what made him decide to run for President (12:20 to 13:33), he answered, 

“President Obama . . . Obamacare in particular.  I just see this huge overreach of government . . . not just with the government trampling on people of faith, but the government trampling on your economic rights. . . . This is the future of America unless we get back and say, look, America was a great country not because the government told you what to do.  America’s a great country because we believed in limited government and free people, and building a great and just society from the bottom up, not the top down.”