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>> no. >> so the fact he hasn't had to do it shows you his opponents have done a horrible job. >> he gave a speech in ann ar r arbor, university of michigan, where he actually said i'm sticking by romneycare, and he laid out why. it had the effect -- you may argue that it was the bad effect, the wrong effect -- but it had the effect of taking the issue off the table so it wouldn't be litigated in 30-second ads. it got actually litigated in a substantive way. and here we are a year later asking, and there hasn't. has there ever been an ad run in defense of romneycare. >> the speech was a very good speech, and it had that effect. it had a positive political effect, but it didn't answer these questions. and you would have thought, on another campaign, you would have heard that peach and okay, let's poke holes in that speech, and no one seems to have done that. >> the issue with the mandate for a lot of conservatives, it's been mandate. >> republicans who say, you know, romneycare means the issue of obamacare is off the table for the general election, that's

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