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Moderate last year because that was his reputation. and conservatives suspected he was a moderate in a very negative way. and i think nonconservatives hoped he was a moderate in a more optimistic way. but when you look at the platform that mitt romney sort of embraced and ran on last year, that was about the most conservative republican platform i've ever seen. >> and i'm not sure if i can come up with anything where cruz is that much farther to the right than romney. he's temperamentally much more conservative, but i'm not sure whether on the issues he's taken any stances to romney's right. >...