MESA, Ariz. — Some of Rick Santorum’s advisers are frustrated and angry that reporters are focusing more on their candidate’s statements about Satan than on his positions on the issues. Here in Arizona Tuesday, Santorum faced repeated questioning about portions of a 2008 speech at a Catholic university in Florida in which he said, “Satan is attacking the great institutions of America.”

“I don’t know what’s newsmaking that Rick Santorum believes in right and wrong, good and evil, God and the devil,” says one campaign aide.  “I really don’t know how that’s out of the mainstream.”