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Anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist said Monday that Mitt Romney made a "mistake" in advocating the individual mandate as part of the president's healthcare reform law, but that he was encouraged that the Republican front-runner had shifted "in favor of liberty" and now opposes the requirement.

"I think it was a mistake to have said it then," Norquist said on MSNBC of a 2009 op-ed penned by Romney in USA Today that said Obama could "learn a thing or two" from the Massachusetts plan.

"He shouldn't have â€" the good news is he shifted on that and is running against someone who signed it into law. I'd rather have them shift in favor of liberty than against liberty … some conversions are OK," Norquist said.

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