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Rick Santorum said at Wednesday's GOP debate that he supported the No Child Left Behind education reform package because it "was the principle priority of President Bush," despite believing the legislation violated his conservative principles.

"I have to admit, I voted for that, it was against the principles I believed in, but you know, when you're part of the team, sometimes you take one for the team, for the leader, and I made a mistake. You know, politics is a team sports, folks, and sometimes you've got to rally together and do something, and in this case I thought testing and finding out how bad the problem was wasn't a bad idea," Santorum said.

Those comments drew harsh criticism from Ron Paul, who said that the "go along to get along" attitude was "the problem with Washington."

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