Jason Linkins of the Huffington Post wrote:

In an interview with CBN’s chief political correspondent, David Brody, Rick Santorum says that it’s “silly” to think that he can’t win the GOP nomination in 2012. That said, he thinks that “Obamacare is the most important domestic policy issue that we have to deal with,” which will probably come as something of a surprise to everyone who’s come up on the wrong end of the massive unemployment crisis the nation is currently undergoing. As you might expect, however, Santorum’s direct attack on the Affordable Care Act sends indirect fire in the direction of the presumed GOP frontrunner:

SANTORUM: I think Obamacare is the most important domestic policy issue that we have to deal with. It is bad policy, it is government control of health care, it’s the wrong approach and anybody that supports an approach similar to it, I think is on the wrong track. They [Massachusetts] certainly had the right to pass this. I will agree with that. Unlike the federal statute, the Obamacare statute, which I think is unconstitutional. Clearly Massachusetts had the right to pass an individual mandate, and to have a government basically exercise control over the health care system. The question is is it the right thing to do? Not whether they had the right to do it, was it right to do? And I think it was not right to do, I don’t think that’s the way that you control costs. I don’t think that’s the way that you improve quality of care, and I don’t think it’s the way that you make sure that patients earn control of the system.”