sort of ridiculous and that he was ranked 47th in job creation. if the guest could address these issues i would appreciate it. guest: i will address a couple of those. sure. as it relates to really any job claimed that is made by president obama, mitt romney, by governor rick perry, you really have to look at the broader picture. texas did have tremendous growth in jobs. how much do you credit rick perry with that? we typically give his job claims a half truth rating, because while he did -- he is usually right about the numbers, how much do you credit the governor of a state with what is happening in both the state's economy and the overall economy? often the case of governor perry, he benefited from a really booming energy industry, and how much is that is his responsibility? the energy industry, of course, is driven by a much broader

economic forces. in the case of president obama, when we have looked at claims about job gains or losses in his administration, we have tried to, in talking to economists, is -- sift out, how much do you hold his economic policies response will? wheat ended up giving a lot of half true ratings -- we end up bin laden have a true ratings because you cannot pin this entire economy on one person. it is important for voters to keep in mind that there are a lot of forces, really, if the present or the governor had a lot of control over these things, things would be conceivably a lot better than where they are. host: florida. ron, republican line. dunedin. caller: dunedin, yes. it is hard to understand how you can say -- stand there and say you're being unbiased when you are affiliated with the "st. pete times" which is essentially dead and going out

of business and cannot sell advertising, and you perpetuate this half true, half live perception to the american people -- half lie. it is either true or ally. one of the other. not have this or the other. host: what is your question, caller? guest: i can comment on that. thanks for your opinions. i respect your criticisms. i've got to say, though, that the fundamental concept of the truth-o-meter recognizes something that is important, that statements are not black and white. it is not correct to say that things are either true or false. they are not. and i think the service politifact is doing is by reading things on a relative scale -- the truth is not black or white.

it is shades of gray. things can be technically true but have important caveat that really make it a half truth. that is the value of politifact. what we are doing is going solid research into these things and then putting out our rating. are you going to disagree with some of them? of course. when you are making judgment calls like this, inevitably there are going to be things people disagree with. one final point about my newspaper, "the tampa bay times," formally "the st. petersburg times," it is well regarded. i am sure there are lots of people will find reasons to criticize it. but it has an excellent reputation. it has the courage to create something like politifact and stick with it for four years. and i think our journalism speaks for itself. host: one other pants on fire was not romney -- guest: these are another one of

the big, bold claims to try to win votes, the specter of socialism, that the growth in government spending is so great that we are on the cusp of a government-run economy, of the government taking over the means of production we did fact check this one. there was a great one done by lou jacobson who specializes in economics. and he went to, i think the heritage foundation had global ratings of where countries stand for a free economy and the u.s. is way up near the top in having a free economy. it is just not accurate to say that. host: california. our independent line. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i did a little bit of checking myself on the internet last night because of ron paul's

comments on santorum being a lobbyist. what i found out is that his records show that he earned $1.3 million between january 2010 from august of 2011. this was as a consultant. also, that he filed for those -- the campaign in june of 2011. so, essentially, he is a lobbyist running for president, it seems, according to the fact that i checked. guest: that is a really good question. in fact, we adjust that several times. for instance, president obama has said his campaign does not accept any money from lobbyists. that is technically true.

what the obama campaign does is not accept -- it runs contributions against a list of federally registered lobbyists and if there are any matches they reject the money and send the check back. but the part that makes the claims half truth is that in washington these days, you don't have to register as a lobbyist to be involved in lobbying. i think you make a great point about that, about whether it is senator santorum or others, once they leave public life they will often go to work for a firm that those lobbying, one gauge in strategy sessions, but will not actually register as a lobbyist. we have typically given claims that people are lobbyists and those circumstances a half true rating. it is true they are not registered as a lobbyist but they are involved in the lobbying business.

host: new york city. good morning. john. democrats' line. caller: two things that bother me. i have heard for a long time republicans saying that what the first two years of barack obama's presidency, he had the congress and could do whatever he wanted. right? is it true that there was a 60- vote threshold for anything to get past and they're actually was 58 democrats and two independents, one of which was joe lieberman who campaigned for mccain. so, that is not really true that he could do anything because there were also take independents there, not 60 democrats. and one other thing that bothers me is something rick santorum said yesterday. he said that this administration does not allow people to talk about abstinence.

my understanding is that this administration does not allow groups to talk about abstinence only. guest: i do not think we have done a fact check on the question about abstinence programs. i can address your question about the majority in congress. yes, you are correct, when president obama took office, democrats had a majority in both houses of congress and did, cut the two independents, have enough -- with the two independents, they had enough margin in the senate to defeat a filibuster under most circumstances. q. but, of course, that all changed in the special election after senator kennedy died and scott brown was elected in massachusetts. that was the point at which the democrats lost that 60-vote margin in the senate, as i

recall. you know, even as, i think governors and presidents will tell you, having a numerical majority of control in a state legislature or congress is no guarantee you will pass everything you want, even if all of those people are from your party. the governors and presidents still have to work hard to try to get support for their programs because legislators are independent and they want to come to their own conclusions and in some cases create their own programs. host: michigan. republican line. caller: good morning. mr. bill adair, i got a question for you, but before i get to that, did you vote for obama? guest: i did this every time i am on c-span. -- get this every time i am on c-span. in journalism we respect the sanctity and privacy of the voting booth but -- so we do not typically reveal who we voted

for. in keeping with that, my newspaper has a policy that we are free to vote in the privacy of the voting booth and not have to disclose that. host: do you have a follow-up? caller: so, anyway, what i really wanted to get to was the basis of the is the tax increases that obama has been jumping all over, talking about and playing this game, but taxing the rich and so on. i thought that taxes basically put was a revenue stream from the taxpayers of america to help fund the government. and it is all about tax revenue. in my recollection, i think the largest tax revenue day for america was back in june of 2007. if i am not mistaken, i think the largest single day that washington collected taxes was up around $86 billion in one day.

so, that is the question -- is that a fact check? i cannot hear anybody talking about it. guest: i am not sure the significance of singling out one day. clearly there were points in our past, because of the economy, because of tax rates, that we had a higher amount of tax revenue than we have today. and i think obviously the predicament we are in in trying to balance the federal budget and trying to pay down the national debt. we have done many fat checks, and i encourage you to go to politifact.com and look under the subject tabs in taxes than you can see a lot of the fact check we have done. host: you also have a report

card on each candidate. guest: i think it is a really valuable feature. a tally of how many true, half- true, false, pants on fire ratings each candidate has gotten. wanting to see the broad trends of how we have rated the candidates. it is not scientific. we are not social scientists. this is a tally of our journalistic work but it is valuable genes -- for example, when congresswoman bachmann dropped out, a lot noted her to record on political -- politifact was a lot of false and pants on fire. host: tom, independent line. caller: hi, bill. one of the biggest lies the republicans tell is this one -- they say that the government does not create private sector jobs. i want them to tell that to all of the people in the private sector that make the bombs, bullets, the tanks, planes, the guys that deliver paper clips and papers and computers to all of the government offices.

guest: an interesting point. indeed, one of the claims that republicans have often made is that the economic stimulus created zero jobs. that is something we have rated pants on fire. that, indeed, the economic stimulus created many jobs. you can have a legitimate debate about whether it is enough but it is just ridiculous with false to say it did not create jobs. as you know, much of the government money went to the private sector. even one of our reporters found a guy who had been employed in a job created by the economic stimulus. just as an example of the many people whose jobs were funded by the stimulus. host: after new hampshire, where does politifact go? guest: we will change the focus to south carolina and florida and will really be looking at the claims the candidates are making their, both in tv ads and in their some speeches, because we are based in florida

and have a staff in washington but we also have a staff in florida. we will be particularly focused on that and looking ahead we will be staying the primary all the way through. and the beauty of our work is it is all collected, so the tally is just keep compounding and the work is all available. so, if you want to look something up like it a stimulus create jobs or can any of these other claims you can go to our website and look it up. host: politifact.com is the website. bill adair serves as the editor. thanks a lot. clucks our road to the white house coverage continues in a few minutes, with president obama's speech in washington and a campaign fund-raiser. we'll return to new hampshire for the full day of campaigning before the election.

we will join mitt romney, jon huntsman, and rick santorum. our coverage leading up to the new hampshire primary continues on "washington journal" tomorrow morning. our guests are the chairman of the new hampshire republican party and the political director of wrtv in manchester. and we will take your questions about independents from a pollster. live every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. we have several live events tomorrow. part of our coverage of governors around the country. florida governor wrecks got kick his state of the state address at 11:00 a.m. eastern. -- florida governor rexroth scott -- rick scott gives his state of the state address at

11:00 a.m. eastern. and chris craft the -- kristi gives his address 3:00 p.m. eastern. president obama spoke at a campaign event in washington. this is half an hour. [applause] >> hello, everybody. hello, hello, hello. [applause] thank you. thank you. thank you. happy new year, everybody. it looks like they got you all fired up. a few acknowledgements i want to make. first of all, the virginia state director is here.

which just want to thank our directors in the state, because they do such hard work every day. give them a round of applause. the chair of our event this evening, spencer over to an ---- overton. thank you. one of michele's favorite singers, and her band. we are grateful to them, and i am grateful to you. i love you back. but i am here not just to say i love you. i am here because i need your help. and more importantly, i am here because the country needs your help. there were a lot of reasons many of you got involved in our campaign and worked your hearts

out back in 2008. it was not because you thought it was going to be easy. it was a sure thing. you decided to support a candidate named barack hossein obama -- hussein obama. you did not need a poll to know struggle. but what evolved during the course of that campaign -- people became aware of the fact that the campaign was not about me. it was about us. it was about our shared vision of america. it was about a vision of america and the was not correct. it was not an idea that in america everybody fence for themselves and plays by their own rules. - cramped. it was not an idea that everybody in america rends for them -- fends for themselves and plays by their own rules.

it was a compassionate america, where everybody who works hard has a chance to get ahead -- not only those at the very top, but everybody. it was a vision that says we are greater together than we are on our own. it was a vision that says everybody who deserves a fair shot, and everybody needs to do their fair share. everybody has to play by the same set of rules. when that happens, we all advance together. that is the vision that we share. that is the change we believed in. you help me believe in that change. it was not just me. it was you. we knew it was not going to be easy. we knew the change we wanted was not going to come quickly. i was talking to a group reminiscing about the 2008 campaign. selective memory, here.

easy at all. there were all kinds of setbacks. the were all kinds of miscues her. there were times i screwed up. but just over three years later, because of what you did in 2008, because you have faith, because you had confidence in the possibilities of this country, here we have begun to see what change looks like. think about it. think about what has happened over the last three years. the first bill i signed into law says an equal day's work should mean an equal day's pay, because our government -- [applause] changes the decision we made to rescue -- change is a decision we made to rescue an auto industry on the verge of collapse, even one politician

bankrupt. a million jobs were saved and local businesses were picking up today. we have the big three, making money, hiring workers, and efficient cars are rolling off the assembly line stamped with "made in america." that is what change is. [applause] changes the decision we made to stop waiting for congress to do something about our oil addiction, and find a way to raise fuel efficiency standards on cars. by the next decade, we will get 55 miles to a gallon. that is going to help our environment. that will help our economy. that will help our consumers. that is what the changes. change is the fight we want to stop him and $60 billion of subsidies -- handing $60 billion of subsidies to the student loan program and give it directly to students. as a result, young people have greater access to college than

ever before. change is the health care reform which passed after a century of trying that will ensure that in america nobody goes bankrupt because they get sick. already, he to 0.5 million young people have health insurance today because that law month and stay on their parent'' plan. seniors are already saying discounts on their prescription drugs. preventive care is available to everybody. fox with pre-existing conditions are in a position to get insurance instead of being left out in the cold. because of you. that is what we were fighting for. millions of americans who can no longer be denied or dropped

by their insurance companies when they needed the most. that is what change is. changes the fact that for the first time in our history, you do not have to hide who you love in order to serve the country you love. don't ask, don't tell is history. it is over. and change is keeping one of the first promises i made in 2008 -- in our troops from. it is over and our troops are home. instead, we refocused on the terrorists who attacked the attack us on 9/11. thanks to our brave men and women in uniform, al qaeda is weaker than it has ever been, and osama bin laden will never again walked the face of the earth. [applause]

a lot of these changes were not easy. some of the more risky. they all came in the face of tough opposition, powerful lobbyists, special interests spending millions of dollars to keep things the way they work. it is no secret i have not always taken the politically popular course. certainly not with the crowd in washington. but this progress has been possible, nevertheless, because of you, because you did not stop believing. you stood up. you major voices heard. you knock on doors, made phone calls, kept up the fight long after the election was over. that should make you proud. but it should also make you hopeful. it should not make you satisfied. it should not make us complacent.

we have so much more work to do, and everything we fought for stake in this election. the very core of what this country stands for is on the line. the basic premise that no matter what you look like, no matter where you come from, this is a place where you can make it where you try, though we are in it together and look out for one another. that is its stake in this election. watch, all of these debates in new hampshire. -- do not take my word for it. watch all of these debates in new hampshire. the crisis that struck before i took office put more americans out of work than any time during the great depression -- since the great depression. but it was the culmination of a decade in which the middle class lost ground. good jobs in manufacturing left our shore. risky financial deals. we rack of greater debt.

wages flat line. the cost of everything from college through groceries went through the roof. these problems did not happen overnight and will not be solved overnight. it is going to take as a few more years to meet all the challenges that have been decades in the making. the american people understand that. what the american people do not understand how our leaders to refuse to take action. they are tired of watching people who are supposed to represent them put party ahead of country, and the next election ahead of the next generation. that is what they do not understand. president kennedy used to say after he took office what surprise to most about washington was that things were just as bad as he had been saying they were. and i understand what he meant. [laughter]

when you have the top republican in the senate saying his party is not to picks jobs or the economy but to beat me, that gives you a sense of the mentality. things are not on the level. that is how you end up with republicans in congress to voting against all kinds of proposals they supported in the past -- tax cuts, building roads, putting cops and teacher's back to work. these used to be bipartisan ideas. i've said i will continue to look for every opportunity during the course of this year to work with congress to move this country forward and create jobs. but we cannot wait. [applause]

whenever this congress refuses to act in a way that hurts our economy and puts people at risk, i have an obligation as president to do what we can without them, on behalf of the american people. i am not going to let members of congress put party ideology ahead of people there were elected to serve. not when there is this much at stake. this is a make or break moment for this country, the middle class and folks that want to get into the middle class. for example, that is why last week by appointed richard cordray as america's consumer watchdog. this is a man whose sole job is to look out for the best interests of american consumers, to protect families from the kinds of unfair, deceptive, abusive financial practices that help bring the economy to its knees. that should not be

controversial. why would somebody be against that? yet for almost half a year, republicans in the senate blocked his appointment. they would not even vote on it. not because they said he was not qualified, because they could not say that. former attorney general. you had democrats and republicans throughout the country saying he was qualified. they just wanted to weaken on wall street reforms. -- we can wall street reforms. they thought this might be too tough on these financial firms. does anybody here think the reason we got into this financial mess is because we had too much oversight? too much accountability? we should not be weakening these rules. we should be strengthening these rules, when it comes to american workers and american families.

we should be looking to protect them more, not less. that is what we have been doing, and that is what we are going to keep doing. it is also why i fought so hard last month to make sure congress did not go home without preventing a tax increase on 160 million working americans. and i am glad. i am glad republicans finally came around and agreed to extend the peril tax cut for working families into this year. but they have to now extended for the entire year, you know? a lot of these republicans have sworn an oath. i will never raise taxes on anybody as long as i live. well, how do not make an exception for ordinary folks. it cannot just applied to the wealthiest. now is the time to prove you will fight at least as hard for

middle-class folks and folks trying to get in the middle class as you do for americans. we have a clear choice this year. people are hurting out there. they are going to a tough time. everybody understands the economy is not where it needs to be. it is growing. it has had five consecutive months of job growth in the private-sector. but everybody understands we still have more work to do. of course it has got to move faster. of course the economy still has a long way to go. everybody understands that. the question is what are we going to do about it. the debate is about where we go from here. the republicans in congress and the candidates running for president have a specific idea for where they want to take this country.

they say they want to reduce the deficit, but they are going to do it by cutting our investments in education, research, technology, and infrastructure -- our roads, our bridges, and our air force. i have already signed a trillion dollars worth of spending cuts, but it is time to reduce the deficit by asking the wealthiest people in our society to pay their fair share. there is nothing wrong with that. people like me can afford it. republicans in congress and on the campaign trail want to make medicare a form of private insurance that seniors have to shop for with a voucher that might not cover all the costs. i think we can lower the cost of medicare with reforms that still guarantee the dignified retirement of seniors, because they have earned it. republicans in congress and these candidates think the best

way for america to compete for new jobs and businesses is to follow other countries in a race to the bottom. they figure china pays low wages, so we should pay low wages. let's roll back minimum-wage. let us prevent folks, for organizing or collective bargaining in this country. since other countries allow pollution as much as they want, why not get rid of the protections that insure our air is clean and our water is clean? i do not think when we should have any more regulations than the american people require. we will save businesses billions of dollars. we are creating a smart government. we have issued fewer regulations than the bush administration. i do not believe a race to the bottom is one we should be trying to win. we should be trying to win the race to the top. we should be competing to make

sure we have the best schools in the world and our workers have the best training and skills in the world, and we have a college education within reach of everybody that wants to go. that is the race we should be trying to win. we should be in a race to give our business is the best roads and airports, railroads, and internet access. we should be in a race to support the best scientists and researchers, who are trying to make the next breakthroughs in clean energy and medicine. those should happen in the united states of america. that is the race we should be trying to win. [applause] we should be in the race to make sure that the next generation of manufacturing, the new products, new services, are not created in asia or europe, but are created here. they are created in detroit, pittsburgh, cleveland, and baltimore. virginia. [applause]

i do not want us to just be known for buying stuff from other places. i want us to be known for building stuff and selling stuff around the world, made in america. that is what i want us to win. the competition for new jobs and new businesses, and middle- class security -- that is a race we can win. we cannot win it if we just go back to the same things that got us into this mess in the first place. it is the same old tune. hand out more tax cuts to folks that don't need them. let companies play by the rules. hope everything eventually trickles down to the rest of us. that does not work. it never worked. we tried it. it did not worked in the great depression. it is not what led to the incredible postwar boom of the 50's and 60's.

it did not work when we tried it between 2000 and 2008. it will not work now. we cannot go back to this brand of on-your-own economics. we are not the country that was built on the idea of survival of the fittest. we were built on the idea that we survive as a nation. we thrive when we worked the other, all of us. -- work together, all of us. every race, every creed. we believe we have a stake in each other's success. if we attract outstanding teachers into our profession, give her the pain she deserves, the support she deserves -- she is going to teach the next steve jobs, and we will all benefit. it would provide a faster internet out in some rural community, that owner is would be selling goods around the world, going to be able to hire more workers.

that is good for all of us. we build a new bridge that saves shipping companies time and money. workers and customers all over the country will do better. that is our idea. and that idea has never been democratic or republican. that is an american idea. the republican president, abraham lincoln, launched the transcontinental railroad, academy of sciences, first land grant colleges. republican teddy roosevelt called for a progressive income tax. republican dwight eisenhower build the interstate highway system. republicans voted with fdr to bring millions of returning heroes, including my grandfather, a chance to go to college under the gi bill. this is an american idea. [applause] you know what? here is the good news. here is the good news. that same common purpose -- that still exists today.

maybe it does not exist here in washington, and maybe not on the presidential debate stage up in new hampshire, but out in america, it is there. it is there when you talk to folks, here on main streets and barbershops and town halls. our political parties may be divided, but most americans understand we are greater together. no matter where we come from, we rise or fall as one nation or when people. that is what is at stake right now. that is what this election is about. i know this has been a tough three years. i know the change we fought for in 2008 -- we have had to grind it out to make it happen. after all that has been going on in washington, all the nonsense that takes place here sometimes, it is easy to believe it might not be possible to do

everything we've worked. but i want to remind everybody of what i said in the last campaign. big changes hard. it has always been hard. it takes more than a single term. it may take more than a single president. it takes you, ordinary citizens, committed to fighting and pushing, inching this country forward, bit by bit. until we get closer to our highest ideals. that is how this country was built. it is how we free ourselves from an empire. it is how the greatest generation was able to overcome more than a decade of war and oppression and end up building the largest middle-class in history.

it is harder and people beat back the billy clubs and the dogs and the fire prices -- fire hoses to make sure race was no longer a barrier to what you could, in this country. changes hard, but it is possible. -- change is hard, but it is possible. i have lived it. if you want to change the point scoring in washington, this is the election to send a message that you refuse to back them. you will not give up. you intend to keep hoping. you intend to keep fighting for the change we talked about, the change we believe them. [applause] you know, i said in 2008 -- i warned you all. i said i am not a perfect man. i said i won't be a perfect president. but i promised you -- i promise you this. i made a commitment to you, and i have kept this commitment. i will always tell you what i

think, i always will tell you where i stand, and i wake up every single day thinking about you, fighting for you, and trying to figure out how we can make sure everybody has access to the american dream. if you stick with us, if you keep pushing, if we keep going through the tough times, if you keep reaching for a vision of america that i know you still hold in your heart, then change would continue to come. [applause] this election may be harder than the last, but i promise you we will finish what started in 2008. we're going to keep going. we will press forward. we will remind the world once more why the united states of america is the greatest nation on earth. thank you. god bless you. god bless the united states of america. [applause]

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>> our coverage of the presidential candidates campaigning for the new hampshire primary continues over the next several hours. in a few moments, mitt romney in bedford, followed by john huntsman in exeter. in a little less than an hour, an event with rick santorum. then, newt gingrich in nashua, and representative ron paul. mitt romney wrapped up his campaigning monday for the first in the nation primary with a half-hour rally in bedford. >> good evening new hampshire.

are you ready? are we ready in the "live free or die" stake to cast a vote that will be heard are on the world -- state to cast a vote that will be heard around the world? are we ready to put governor romney in the white house and turn our economy around? are we ready? [cheers] are we ready to ensure that governor romney is the next president so that none of us will ever have to apologize for being an american? are we ready? [cheers] i am ready. you are ready. and i have three friends to introduce who are ready. three great american patriots. first, senator kelly aiot and her veteran husband from the air force, joe.

the center is a rising star in washington, doing a great job for all of us. and i have another good friend of new hampshire, gov. tim pawlenty from minnesota. [applause] from the liberal land of hubert humphrey and gene mccarthy, this guy cut taxes and balance the budget and is a leading conservative voice across our country. ladies and common, senator kelly aieot. >> thanks so much. i'm here with my wing man, joe daly, and i'm so what to have him here. our country is in trouble. this president has added close to $5 trillion to our debt.

we cannot stand for more years of barack obama. [applause] but i am so encouraged tonight about america. we have mitt romney running for president. he is someone who, unlike this president, has actually balanced budget both in the private sector and as governor of massachusetts. he eliminated a deficit, bounced the budget, but money in -- balanced the budget, put money in the rainy day fund and that is what we need in the washington d.c. [applause] he is someone who knows how the economy works. he will get the private sector working again, and on like this president that we have right now, he knows that our jobs are not created in washington d.c. , they are created by the small

businesses here in new hampshire, and a large businesses all around the country. [applause] and finally, my husband and i, we come from a military family. joe served in the iraq war as an a-10 pilot. [applause] one of the reasons we are supporting mitt romney, one of the most important reasons, is that he will be an excellent commander in chief. he will be a commander in chief who will listen to his military commanders, and not his pollsters or political of geysers, and has just says, he will never apologize for the -- political advisers, and has jeff says, he will never apologize for the united states of america. we will be proud to have him in the white house. [applause]

we have seen around the country that strong, conservative leaders are coming forward to support mitt romney for president. it is my honor tonight to introduce one of those strong conservative leaders for our country, the former governor of minnesota, tim pawlenty. [applause] >> thanks a lot. i appreciate it. do you agree with me that new hampshire has one of the greatest united states senators in the congress today? [applause] kelly is awesome. have you had enough of barack obama? have you had enough of his rhetoric and then he does not deliver what he has promised? have you had enough of barack obama as saying he will cut the deficit in half during his first term and then he'd triples it? have you had enough of barack obama hurting our defense capabilities?

have you had enough of judges who will apply the law like it is written on the back of a napkin is that of the way it is written? are you ready to support mitt romney? [applause] i want to give you two messages before i make an introduction of our featured speaker tonight, the next president. one is this, i grew up in in the packing town. my mother was a homemaker. she passed away when i was young and my lap -- my dad lost his job not too long after that. one of the big challenges for the next president is to make sure that we have a country that does those things that encourage job growth in america, not discourages it. when you ask people all around this country who run small and medium-sized businesses, as

mitt romney did until not long ago, what can you do to make it more likely that we grow jobs, and you know what they say? they say, get the government off my back. [applause] some talk about taxes, some talk about regulation, and some talk about energy, but it is the same message. it is not based on a lifetime in washington d.c., secure life time and politics, but on the growing businesses and providing jobs in the private sector. there's only one candidate cut meet that description, and it is mitt romney. -- that needs to that description, and it is mitt romney. [applause] all across america people want to know if they can get their kids in college, can they pay their of insurance, is my family going to be ok. the main way that we will answer the question is whether they have a job. it has been a real treat to get

to know mitt romney. we traveled together on various trips when i was governor. i got to know him behind the scenes, so to speak. he is a great man of character and integrity. he loves his family. you watch him and ann romney and it is obvious they loved each other and they have been married 40 years or more. he is a great dad. he is a great grandpa. he has an incredibly loving relationship with his grandchildren. it is great to see the strength of the character of his family. i will not just introduced the next president of the united states, but i will introduce within the group of people that helped keep him grounded, that shaped his values, and you will see not just him, but the next great first lady, ann romney. i would like to introduce a very

large portion of the tremendous run the family. not all of them, but a very large portion of the tremendous romney family. ladies and gentlemen, mitt romney. [applause] ♪ >> [crowd chanting "mit!"] >> thanks very much. i hope you'll give me a bigger margin of victory and then the eight votes i got in iowa. [applause] i want to thank you for being here tonight. you may wonder who are all of

these people. on the far right, that is not my son. that is my brother. scott is albany, by the way. and then there are three of my boys. my oldest son is a doctor. craig, the youngest of my five boys. he lives in california. his wife is separated. there they are. they are together again. there is joe with his dad. this is confusing. there are from california with their four children. this is nick, chloe, mia, and make the grade. -- nate, the great. [applause]

if i did not have a family that was behind me and encouraging the and if i did not have a wife quitting yet to this, i do not think i would be -- putting me up to this, do not think that would be doing this. last time round i decided i was uncertain and i did not think i wanted to do it again, but she said i have got to. my sweetheart, ann romney. [applause] >> i see a lot of people that we have known and loved for a long time. thank you. it's great to have my family here. we are so appreciative of everyone who has been here for us. i think you have heard me say before that after the last election, you one thing was certain, i was never going to do that again. it reminds me that i said that after each pregnancy.

[laughter] and you notice, i've got a few sons. off but about a year ago, miffs and i were figuring this out. -- mitt and i were figuring this out and we were going to all of the roadblocks, which i was aware of. and i said, i just want you to answer one question, just one. can you turn america around? and his answer was yes. then i said, no question, you have got to run. [applause] we are in it because i believe america is in peril. we are in stormy seas right now. and who knows what is coming down and what kind of difficulties this country will face. but i know something else. if the life -- the light that ronald reagan talked about, the shining light on the hill, that life is fading.

i need someone to get in there and turn up that fight. let's hear it for the next president of the united states. [applause] >> she always says that, you know that? she speaks like the and people say, why shouldn't she be president instead of you? it is so frustrating. thank you, sweetheart. i want to thank all of you for being here this evening. you have a border security problem here in new hampshire. some folks from massachusetts made it is across the border. you have a republican delegation from massachusetts. and greg johnson, the leader of the republican house. and as you know, our legislature is about 85% democrat, so i appreciate you being up here. thank you, guys. it is good to have you

[applause] -- not to have you here. [applause] -- is good to have you here. [applause] we announced that i was going to run for president. it's i know a number of you were there. and we have been coming to new hampshire for 40 years. we would go slowing in the lakes here with our children. -- swimming in the lakes here with our children. we taught our little guys how to ski here. taught them how to water ski and we love the people of new hampshire. we love the yankee spirit of "live free or die." i do not know who captured the phrase, but it so typifies the people of this state that you love your freedom and the

founding vision of this great country. i love new hampshire. i appreciate your welcoming us here tonight. if i am president of the united states, will not forget new hampshire. i will make sure that new hampshire has a place in the white house. if i'm president of united states. [applause] america faces a very stark choice of direction. which way are we going ahead over the coming years? i happen to believe that we are now seen played out before the american people a very stark difference between the two courses that we can take. i have seen a president that has faced the 35 straight months of unemployment he said he would -- unemployment above 8%.

he said he would borrow $87 billion and unemployment would drop. it has not been below 8%. 25 million people are out of work or have stopped looking for work. people who were thinking of retirement now wonder if they can retire. people who were wondering which college they might go to are now looking at whether they should get another minimum-wage job to make ends meet. this is a detour for america. this president attitude is "well, it could be worse." that is not my view. i have a very different view about america. i think we can put back to work to people who are out of work. i believe we can become the job-creating machine we once were. i believe we can once again make

it the best place in the world to be middle income. we can also not just talk about, if would be better, but in fact, it must be better. if i were president of the united states, i would use all of my energy to create a better job environment for the people of america. and make things better for all americans. [applause] we have a president who said he was going to go out and be critical of the president. you recall president bush, saying that he borrowed too much money. and that the deficits were too large. then he came into power. now we have are three times as -- now the deficits are three times as much. he is on track in four years to put against america's future as much debt as all of the prior presidents combined, almost. all the prior presidents combined. and think about that. he has put us on track to become the italy or the greece of the

future. that is unsustainable. we cannot do it. the idea of consistently spending more money than we taken, to the kids out here,it is wrong. it is bad economics. it is not moral. if i am president of the united states, i will cut federal spending, balance the budget, cap how much the federal government spends. let's get spending under control. on the one hand, we have a president who thinks with our health care challenges we have -- he has all of the answers. he thinks his plan will be imposed upon the entire nation soon. he thinks government can do a better job of guiding our health care system than free people making their own choice. -- choosing their own course. i happen to believe that he is wrong. i do not believe an obamacare. i will do something different.

i will repeal obamacare on day one. with all the energy i can muster. [applause] i will need the help of congress to get that done, but i will also make sure that while we are waiting for the repeal to occur, the direct the secretary of -- i will direct the secretary of health and human services will grant a waiver from obamacare to all 50 states true, happen to believe that the people who should guide health care -- to all 50 states. because i happen to believe that the people who should get health care in this country are not government. but three people doing what they think is right for themselves. -- but are free people doing what they think is right for themselves. [applause] we have a president who thinks that his job is to stop all of the forms of energy that we are used to. holding off on coal and drilling for oil, and we fall further and further behind in demand. -- in our obedience to the market demands of the oil cartel's overseas. if i were president, will

develop the oil and gas and nuclear to finally become energy secure and independent of the oil cartel's. [applause] i really think this is a campaign about the soul of america. the question is, are we going to hold fast to the principles upon which this nation was founded, or are we going to take a different course? when the founders wrote the -- crafted this country and wrote the declaration of independence, they said we were endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, among them, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. in america, we have the right to pursue happiness as we choose. we can decide what we want to be by virtue of our education, our hard work, our risk taking, our dreams. we can accomplish things that the whole world marvels at. that is what america has always

been. i believe in that kind of america. it is a merit-based society, an opportunity society where people come here not for handouts, but opportunity. [applause] it is a nation where we know that our kids future will be unencumbered by the circumstances of birth and will be as broad and bright as their dreams, as their education, as their willingness to work and take risks. that is what we believe about america. i believe president obama would change the culture and the nature of this country. i think he wants to make this more like a european welfare state. if i am not willing to make america more like europe. i don't think europe is working in europe. i want to make america more like america. to make us the hope of the earth. [applause] >> [crowd chanting indistinctly]

> >> mitt! mitt! [unintelligible] >> mitt! mitt! mitt! >> instead of shouting, why don't you say your views? madam, what do you think?

>> [inaudible] >> and what is that? and who is the president that is spending more money than in the -- more money to campaign than ending -- in the history of america? [cheers] the answer is, this president is spending money and has spent money, more than we have over our history. we had a public funding plan for our presidents. and this president has and no one --this president has been the first two throws of the public spending program, to break all of those barriers, and to spend massively more than any other president in this country's history. we know better than to hand over a second term. [cheers and applause] i get a chance to see these guys come out here and protest and ask them, what would you replace america with it? what kind of system which you have?

they don't know. [laughter] and the truth is, there has never been anything in the history of the earth that has freed people from poverty like america. -- three enterprise, american style. -- free enterprise, american- style. [applause] you can't places like china. even china -- you look at places like china. even in china, they realize it is free enterprise and capitalism. now it's up with the way we practice it, but the principles of america and of freedom will prevail. that is why we are going to stand for freedom for us and for our kids. [applause] you guys, i love this country.

i learned to love america when i was just a kid. my mom and dad -- there are a couple of kids right there. hi, you guys. my mom and dad took me to the national parks. as i went to the national parks, i saw the beauty of the land. i also heard from mom and dad, their views about the founding of the country and their passion for the founders and their view terror -- their views on the future of america. i often heard my parents talk about their favorite national hymns. not only "the star spangled banner," but "america, the beautiful," one of my favorites. some of those verses you know. o beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties. we have a few purple mountains here in new hampshire. there's another first verse that i love. all beautiful for heroes prove in liberating stride, who more

than self their country love, and mercy more than light. will the veterans in their room, acting national -- the veterans in the room, acting national guard and reservists, will you raise your hand? [applause] thank you for your service. there is one more verse, and that is "oh beautiful, for patriot dream, that sees beyond the years." i believe that this vision of the founders, this passion for freedom and opportunity, that it was not designed just for their time, but ours as well. it sees beyond the years in terms of its impact and relevance. if i am president of the united states, i will restore a passion for the founding principles of this great land to get americans back to work, to rein in this government and to make sure that we are strong run the world. -- of around the world. i am dismayed as i watched the president talk about shrinking our military. the president would take us in

a direction that would make america's military smaller. -- less and less powerful relative to the rest of the world. we are a patriotic people. we love america. we're going to come together and make sure that we keep it as it's always been, that shining city on a hill. i love this country and we will do our best to keep america strong and free together. together you're going to make a good big statement tomorrow. let's take kdot -- let's take it to the next stage. give me the boost i need, i hope. thank you so much. [applause] ♪ [bob seger's "born free"

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>> thanks, everybody. i love that lady. i even love maureen. what a sweetheart. ladies and gentlemen, can you feel a little bit of momentum in the air? [applause] can you feel the energy out there, ladies and gentlemen? i don't know about you, but we have gone from one end of this state to another today, and every stop along the way, i hear the same thing. something is happening out there. something is happening. i have no idea what it is going to be tomorrow night, but i do know this. we are going to surprise a whole lot of people in this country of ours. [applause] thank you all for being here. we came on june 21, to this call. we had a few people standing

around, and many of them came. many of you are now old friends. with this look of disbelief, a sense of indifference. what is this candidate all about? tonight, we stand here with a great following in this state. you are all part of a movement, and i am glad to have you as part of it. since june 21 and last night, we together have done 170 public events in the granite state. [applause] 170 events, ladies and gentlemen. it's incredible. you know what? to the people of this state -- they don't want to be told for whom to vote, and they sure don't want the establishment sending up the same old people. they want a new generation of leadership, a new generation of energetic leadership that is going to get the job done.

you are part of that movement. but let me remind you all of a couple of things before we shake hands and move out. do we have work to do tonight and tomorrow? we have some work to do. let me remind you first. i am grateful to the standing with you, who are friends and colleagues and volunteers and supporters. i cannot think you enough. we have people from all over the country who are here. we have some folks who got in cars the other end of the country and grove, people who got on buses and made their way because they believed in a better america. that is who you are. that is who you are, ladies and gentlemen. [applause] i travel around this state. i looked at every sinai pass, --

signed that i pass, and there are a lot of them out there. i am reminded that somebody wrote that signed. somebody volunteered in our name, to keep weight out to the other side of the state, and had enough interest in the country to put that in the ground. and it carries your name. for those of you who have run for president before, that is a pretty awesome deal, when you go down the highway and see your name on design. that is pretty cool. then he stopped to think it is all about volunteers. it is all about the team. i hear reports. some of our volunteers have called thousands and thousands of people. thousands and thousands of people they have called. we have folks putting up signs. we have people ready to get out the vote, people who've been making calls, people who have been organizing all 10 counties around here. are we ready to rock and roll tomorrow? we are ready to rock and roll. [applause]

point number two. this is bigger than all of us here in this room, you know what i mean? this is america. this is our country. we are here not to play politics. we are here as americans first and foremost. and we are here to put our country first. did you like the debate yesterday morning? [applause] i think we reminded a certain other candidate in the race that our team and our movement is here to put our country first, and we are tired of people putting politics first. [applause] we are all americans first and foremost. we want a better tomorrow, and what we are about to hand down to the next generation is

unacceptable. unacceptable. it is and who we are. we are blue sky, problem- solving, optimistic people. we are americans at the end of the day. this is not who we are. we are in a whole, and we are about to get out of it with new leadership. we are about to get out of it with new leadership. remember this is bigger than all of us. this is about a country we love. it is about the next generation of americans we are going to fight for, because they deserve it. when we leave tonight, and when we put in as hard work tomorrow that i know we are all going to be prepared to do -- we will be up bright and early, and we are going to work our tails off all day long. i want you to remember as to carry on tomorrow that this is about a country we love. it is not about politics. this is about us as americans. it is about the greatest nation that ever was, the united states of america. [applause]

[chanting: usa] and i want you all to remember as we are working tomorrow -- you should think tonight about what tomorrow might bring. you should think about what we are going to accomplish together, because when we get to the and the road, to the white house, we are going to get a few things done. we're going to get term limits for congress, finally, once and for all. [applause] and we are going to close the revolving door for lobbyists, members of congress coming out and screwing things up. [applause] and we're going to tell congress we are going to dock your pay until you balance the damn budget, for heaven's sake.

we have been in the war on terror for 10 years. we love our men and women in uniform. they are the best of our nation. and we have something to show for the work they have done. we have routed the taliban. we have dismantled al qaeda. osama bin laden is no more. we have had free elections. we have strengthen civil society, helped the police and military. folks, we are coming home from afghanistan. [applause] and we're going to begin to rebuild this nation of ours. we are going to rebuild this nation. we will get our core strong. we have no effective foreign policy, no effective national security strategy, with a weak nation at home. we are going to strengthen this

nation and remind the world of what it means to be americans. [applause] and we are going to project those values that we have become so well known for -- liberty, democracy, human rights, and open free markets. because when our nation is strong, we move people. we change lives. we change history. nobody does it like united states of america. it starts with a strong country on the home front we are all going to work for. you know what else we are going to do? we are going to right-size those banks that are too big to fail. [applause] i say what kind of deal is this?

we have been there. we have done that. we are not going to bail anybody out again, for heaven's sakes. just remember as you wake up tomorrow morning, as you get out and energized, making calls, taking your friends out to vote -- this is what we are all going to do, right? are you with me on that? we are going to do it with the idea in mind that this movement of ours is going to nail the economic and deficit, because we are not passing $15 trillion down to the next generation, i am sorry. but just as importantly, we are going to work on the trust deficit in this country. you hear what i am saying? i am sick and tired of there being no trust by the people toward their institutions of power. [applause] we are a nation founded on trust, and we are going to get back to trusting one another, and we are going to work to come together as americans. you know what else we are going to talk about? coming together as americans.

this divided stuff -- no more. we are coming together as americans to start solving our problems. [applause] [chanting: usa] >> we have some work to do. this is what i have been asking everybody recently. i am a shameless salesman at this point. i was even at a bakery this morning. the lady running the cash register was on the phone to the dairy company and i said, "give me that phone. i have to ask that person for a vote." i got a vote on the other end. it worked. every vote counts. when you walk out of here, here it is in the name of pulling this nation together, putting our country first. it is in the name of working tirelessly for the next

generation. what i have been asking people for is their vote, and here is the deal. when i asked people for a vote, i am also asking them for their trust. just like to have all of you. every volunteer, friend, associate -- you are here because you trust we are going to do the job. you trust we are going to hold true to our word, which is rare in politics these days. i have gone around this great state and asked people for their vote, and i am also asking people for their trust, because let's face it. at the end of the day, there is nothing more valuable you can give to another person and trust. it is a big deal. all of us in this room and beyond are going to be fuelled by a trust. it is what makes this country work. we need a system that in fuses

that notion of trust into our system once again. as you are working tomorrow, i want you to remember the word, "trust." it there is one word that summarizes everything we are trying to do -- everything is trust. that is what this movement is about. that is what this campaign is all about. i believe that trust is going to take us all the way to the finish line tomorrow night, and we are going to surprise the world. thank you all for being here tonight. let's go to work. thank you. thank you. [applause] [music: u2 "beautiful day"]

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[unintelligible] >> what explains this momentum? >> hard work. we're going to get as many but -- many -- as many votes as possible. >> i know it is hard.

>> we are going to make that happen. we are going to get out and work tomorrow. [unintelligible] >> our road to the white house coverage takes you to the candidate events. >> thank you and good luck to you, governor. >> all the best to you. >> good luck, governor. >> thank you very much. i appreciate it. all i want is the endorsement of the people of new hampshire right now. >> as we follow the candidates on the campaign trail meeting

voters -- >> i am far very strict rules. that's right. controlling the border is a big first step. [unintelligible] >> tomorrow night, watching our coverage of the new hampshire primary, with speeches at 8:00 a.m. eastern -- 8:00 p.m. eastern. all along with your comments on facebook and twitter. >> earlier on monday, rick santorum and his wife stopped in for about 20 minutes at a restaurant in derry.

the third of five campaign events of the day.

>> trying to do the best that we can. thank you so much. good to see you. [unintelligible]

>> we are going to keep moving, guys. >> there you go. co. all right. >> we have to keep moving. >> terrific big crowd. we feel very good. we feel very strong and we're going to finish well. i feel very good. >> what about setting expectations for south carolina? it when i first came here, i thought we had good expectations. we're going to win new hampshire and go on.

[unintelligible] as we get on the air, we're just going to keep working hard and keep the message moving and the momentum going. [unintelligible] >> we have no record of electability. -- he has no record of electability. he has never raced as a conservative, so i do not know how -- [unintelligible] >> any scenario that you would not be going to south carolina? >> he would have to do really, really well. [unintelligible] >> if you will let these folks get out. thank you.

>> i would hope that -- i was helping people would wait until i -- [unintelligible] >> if let's go, guys. [unintelligible] >> everybody out, let's go. come on, guys. everybody out. come on, guys. come on, come on. >> sorry about that. let's go outside. everybody go out.

>> out of respect for the honor, i am not one to say any more to the cameras. i would be happy to do that outside. so let's give these diners some room. thanks a lot, everybody. no more comments. try to keep up with this man right here. >> thank you. >> [unintelligible] >> we are bringing them out. >> do you want us to go out the front or the back? >> out the front. no problem.

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>> earlier today you talked about being in second place. >> i have been running really hard. i went down to south carolina last night -- yesterday and i have a great trip down there, there is a lot of enthusiasm. folks are anxious to get us down there. we have a great, great team there. hear, too. we have a lot of great energy here. he has spent a lot of money on television and we did not have it. we decided to come here because you guys are here. we wanted the opportunity to keep our message just out there, not just for folks in new hampshire, but around the country. our hopes that our grass-roots effort and our team that we built here in the ideas we have -- and the ideas we have been talking about will resonate here. i think that they have. they have moved up from 3% into the pack of those who have spent a lot more time and money than we have here. [unintelligible]

oh, my goodness, yes. ron paul is right here about 17 times. to do as well as them, i am not show that as possible but if we do it, that to me would be great. [unintelligible] >> mitt romney says that he is electable in your not. -- and you are not. >> he has run three times and lost twice. he has run as a liberal, a moderate, and now is a conservative. i've run here -- i have run five times and won four, i have always run as a conservative and run four times out of five. who is the most electable? it is an absurd statement because of budget people giving -- a bunch of people giving mitt romney money to see the establishment candidate when, we lost with john mccain, we lost with bob dole, we lost

with jerry ford. and when we run with conservatives like ronald reagan, we have been able to win. that is what we need. this is a party that understands ultimately that we need a strong conservative voice out there to be a strong alternative to barack obama and we are that alternative. over time, it will not be this primary are the next, but we -- it will not be this primary or the next, but we will have several races down the road, it will be a one-on-one race, and you'll see mitt romney against rick santorum and we will win this. >> what he's going to do to keep people in their homes? home foreclosure is an epidemic. did in the best thing to do is -- >> the best thing to do is improve the economy. get the economy going again, so we can see housing values going again and housing starts go up, and people being able to pay

their mortgage bird that is the -- their mortgage. that is the best way to do it. we've had a prolonged recession because this president has continued to crush the american economy with more and more regulations. he issued 150 regulations last year. it cost businesses over $100 billion. never before, two. time -- 2.5 times the average over the past few years. -- over the past 20 years. this administration does not get it. they did top-down, higher taxes, destroying the economy. >> our poll has you moving ahead a little bit and falling back and forth place. is that this aborning? >> i have seen polls that have been tied for third place. that came out today. look, it is all within the margin of error. i think your poll and other polls are showing a huge percentage of undecideds is still. none of those polls are taken before the debate. we're doing exceptionally well in both of those debates. we are the candidate that has

the best ability to go to to toe with mitt romney and beat the establishment and have a strong, conservative, principal candidate tim take on barack -- conservative that we need to confront iraq obama. >> is mitt romney a conservative? >> i think he is on some issues. but we need a strong contrast. he is good on some issues but he has a record of being a strong, -- i have a record of being a strong conservative deck and make a difference. -- a strong conservative who can make a difference. who can energize the conservative base as well as through my policies and the work of done been able -- i have done in the past, to reach out. the stakes that we need to win, -- the states that we need to win, i am the one that has a track record of winning in those states. the policies fit in with the kind of voters that we need to defeat the bar " -- to feed

barack obama. -- to defeat barack obama. that is why i think we are the best candidate to win. >> said a third -- senator -- >> [unintelligible] >> we are going to go through and go to the back. >> thanks. >> do not let them come in. >> i ask you if you would declare a war?

is the united states allowed to do strikes without declaring force? >> yes. >> we are? >> we are not talking about full-scale war, but targeted strikes. certainly i would consult with congress. about're talking president obama during strikes in libya, ok? that is a different situation, ok? [unintelligible]

>> thank you very much. thank you. bye-bye. thank you. [unintelligible] >> i am the best guy -- [unintelligible] to win this election as an accident -- as a conservative.

[unintelligible] >> i did not say they were black. i got my tongue tied. look at my track record. look at my opportunity in helping to go, look at my record of employment, of working in the community. you guys, it is really sad that you keep bringing this up. >> put him in the car. >> i have done more -- and then any republican in recent memory. >> give space, please.

>> do not forget now. >> rick santorum also visited a rally in manchester monday evening. this is about 10 minutes. [applause] >> thank you, thank you. thank you. thank you.

thank you so much. it is great to be here. thank you so much for the great crowd that is here. i want to just say that i have made 31 trips to new hampshire, people said, new hampshire is a tough state. new hampshire is a place where someone with strong principals and conservative values will struggle. i think we will show them that new hampshire, the same new hampshire that voted for ronald reagan in 1980 over a moderate who they said could win, said, no, we're going to vote for the real conservative because we know the real conservative could win this race and change this country, and that is what we are going to do. [applause] i want to thank -- this is our ending rally here. i'll be back again in a fall as the nominee. [applause]

i want to thank my team up here and obviously the first member of the team i have to thank is my family, this is my wife, karen. my daughter elizabeth. we've got daniel. the rest of the santorum family is already deployed in south carolina, working south carolina right now. but we are here for the final two days. i want to thank my cochairs who are here. and also one who is not here, thank you for all of your help and support. [applause] when i came here, i came here to sort of see whether i would run for president, and this guy who is a political they appear, who ran a lot of campaigns, said he wanted to meet with me because he wanted to work on my campaign. he had just won a campaign for this guy named guinta here in

new hampshire. and i said, i want the guy that got him elected. frank is a great guy. we come from the same heritage, but the italian-americans, and he has done a great job for us not just running new hampshire, but such a great job that he is now the campaign manager for my campaign. let's give mike a big round of applause. thank you, buddy. this is a big election year there will be no election in your lifetime that will be more important than this one. i was talking to -- someone whose name you know, let me just put it that way, and he said, rick, if you have to tell people that this is a. this is said. this is someone who is not from this country, someone who loves this country, from afar. he has said to me, rick, please

tell americans that this is the election that we cannot lose. this is an election whether we're going have a president and a country continues to believe in the greatness of the american people, that believes in a country where we build a great nations by believing in 3 people, not that we build the these horrible government contraptions that tender run our lives from the top-down. .

>> hey, guys. >> newt gingrich's schedule on

monday included a of a town hall meeting in nashua. this is about 40 minutes. >> i do not have any notes. we lost the teleprompter on the bust. [laughter] let me say first, and just to remind all of us why we are here, i am running for president. i would very much like to have your support tomorrow, everywhere. only during the campaign. i want to take a couple of minutes and talk about something other than the campaign, because this is the first stop we have been on where we can really talk about national security in a very sophisticated way, with an audience that understands how important this is.

i am an army brat. my dad spent 27 years in the infantry. i grew up in places like fort riley, stood guard, germany. i got to georgia when my dad was assigned to fort benning. i have a lifelong interest in military affairs and national security. i decided in august 1958 that i would do what i am doing now, largely as a function of national security. i was 15 years old and my dad had convinced me the stuff was real. i think what many politicians and reporters do not realize is the extraordinary capabilities of the american military start at places like this. what you are doing is fully as much a part of national security as the person in uniform at the point in afghanistan, are much -- iraq, or somalia, or an intelligence operative who may be covert, or the state department diplomat. the various capabilities to

help develop, and companies that you across the country. we have an integrated capacity to bring science and technological knowledge to bear through a manufacturing process which enables our troops to have enormous advantages over our competitors. i think that is very important to understand. when we first went into afghanistan, there were very small special forces teams that were sent in. but nobody has really written about how it actually works. these are brave people. they are trained people and courageous people. but by themselves, they would not be dramatically more capable. they might be more capable by a factor of three to one or four to one, what 300 to one. when the teams arrived,

particularly in the north, the people they were dealing with fighting the russians and the taliban -- they got the fight. they have been doing it their lifetime. initially, they were puzzled by these very small teams, who pulled out sat phones. the pulled out capabilities that went into space and then down somewhere. they began pulling back visual imagery from overhead. all sorts of things that began to come to bear so that the person at the point had the support of the entire nation. one of the stories i was told by the deputy commander in that period was that when they first began meeting with the northern alliance, the northern alliance said, "we will ride in the morning." i scared of them and said, "what do you mean?"

they said, "we are going on horseback. it turned out the special forces field uniforms have a very large in seems -- have very large inseams, which, when you ride a horse, create a big problem. this was physically painful. they got on a cell phone. -- sat phone. they found that if you got extra-heavy, super large pantihose, three pair provide a buffer with you are riding a horse. i have never recommended anybody go to fort bragg and walk up to one of these guys and say, "however the potatoes? -- how are the pantihose?"

if i was doing a professional day at a joint forces command. like you, i broke out laughing. what people don't realize is think about the capacity to encounter the problem you have never thought of, the in the middle of nowhere -- this is central asia. pick up the phone. make an of order. within 36 hours, had it airdropped. and not have a clue going in which thing you will need this time. you are an intimate part of the system. i will tell you one of the stories. i will talk about the president if utterly destructive policy proposal this week. i was down at yale university, teaching a course about 1983. i ask them to give a briefing.

there had been a syrian-israeli engagement which was 101-one. that is, the syrians lost 101 aircraft and the israelis lost one. in my mind, this was the moment, lots of theories came together. you are now looking at a new reality. i asked him to put together a special briefing for me on what had happened. he said you have to understand the nature of the emerging battlefield. i have been involved a lot with the army command, designing since 1979, when i came as a freshman. i understood in general what had been going on, but i wanted to get a feel for this. the israelis had what we all take for granted. they were flying of the mediterranean coast in a 707, and they were picking up all the electronic emissions from

the syrian air force. as the israeli pilots are sitting around having coffee and chatting, they are monitoring. when the syrian pilots get in their plans and talk to the control tower and say, "our flight is ready to leave," they are listening. they have arabic translators. they are calling the ready room. we think given their flight time there will be entering the space where you can kill them in about 11 minutes. why don't you plan to takeoff in six minutes? we will vector you to where they are. he then showed me footage of this. the syrians, who were still fighting world war ii style, but, with no electronics, are flying blind. they are taking off. when they get to a certain distance that is within the range of the israeli missiles,

the airborne warning and control system says to them, "fire your missiles in this direction." these are hunt and six missiles. and go home. they never dogfight. the syrian planes get killed. they pick up them getting killed on the radar. they say, "that wave is gone. go back and rest. have coffee. watch a movie. we will let you know when the next wave comes." they just kept doing this. when they got done with this briefing and showed me this footage of four beyond visual range missiles being fired, and each was killing a syrian aircraft, i turned to the guys. this was 83. -- 1983. it happened faster than i thought it would. i thought it would take 20 years, and it only took 291. -- it only took till 1981. i turned to my briefers and

said, "if we have entered an age of instantaneous theater-wide warfare, and the soviets believe the xerox machine is a state secret, they are dead. it is impossible for a highly- controlled information- compartmentalized system to compete with a free-form system-wide"-- now it is worldwide. we have assets that allow us to shift information around the planet in virtually real-time. the reason i am telling you this is this is what you are part of. if the components you make do not work, people died. if the components to make do not work, we lose battles. all our capabilities are wonderful, courageous young people, reinforced by lots and lots of people working hard to design and implement the next generation. because of russia and china, you

have pretty good competitors technologically. we are in a permanent process of upgrading, because the first set of problems will not be the last. the weapon systems that were magic in 1983 are obsolete today. you are caught in a permanent process of defense in which we have to understand our competitors, come up with solutions that overmatch them, manufacture and implement those solutions, trained to those solutions, provide logistic support, and integrate into a seamless, worldwide system. that is why the president's comparison of our defense system with any other defense system in the world is sophomoric of foolish. we are the only country in the planet which seeks to provide stability and security on a worldwide basis, the only country which seeks to minimize casualties to our young men and women. we deliberately create an overmatched to save american

lives. i am against any president who would willingly take risks that are going to get young american men and women in uniform killed, or risk of losing a city to an enemy. and i think his proposals this week are the most irresponsible defense proposals of my lifetime. i think the congress should repudiate them and insist on this model. the model is simple. number one. what threatens us? what do we have to do to defeat those threats without losing americans? how do we make sure we have a margin of safety? if we are going to make a mistake, let us be too safe, not too weak. until you decide that solution, -- design that solution, you do not know what to defense budget ought to be. i am not just talking about throwing money at defense. during the reagan buildup, i helped found with dick cheney and a number of other people,

the military reform caucus. our theory was we were hawks, but cheap hawks. [laughter] i think you can take layers of bureaucracy out of the defense department. i suspect many of you deal with the layers of the bureaucracy. you know it is cumbersome and we can save money. but i want to have a very powerful defense system in a very dangerous world, and i would rather take the risk of being too strong over the risk of being too weak. i wanted to share that. this is a rare opportunity for me to talk about national security. i am personally grateful. you make america strong. i would like to take questions. is that ok? ok. if there are any questions. who would like to ask questions? yes, sir. >> a lot of times, you have to question their motives as well. >> i regard pakistan as a

country which is neither and eleanor and enemy. -- neither and allied nor an enemy. i think it is a country in turmoil. it is deeply penetrated by our enemies. they have different interests and we do. -- then we do. we have not begun to understand the tip of the pakistan system and how convoluted it is. all you have to do is ask yourself -- is there anybody who believes osama bin laden could be hiding in a large compound 1 mile from a national defense university four years without the government at some level knowing it? it is inconceivable. the first reaction was not who has been hiding him, but who helped the americans. pakistan is in many ways a battleground in which the

government has a tenuous hold on security, and in which the government is riddled by factions, some of which are deeply hostile to us. it should worry us that they have between 102 hundred nuclear -- between 100 and 200 nuclear weapons. weapons. people talk about the iranian bomb, which they should. -- 100 and 200 nuclear weapons. people talk about the iranian bomb, which they should. but pakistan worries meet every day. we have no idea whether there will be a leak, a takeover, a coup. this is an unstable country for us to rely on. somebody wake up at the back. >> more of a domestic issues question. i do not hear a lot about consumer protection. what is the proper role of the

federal government in consumer protection? >> there should be strong laws that allow you to protect yourself from getting ripped off. second, we ought to have constant statistical monitoring. for example, hit the product is made which leads to a crib deaths, we want to know immediately and withdraw it from the market. that is legitimate. i think there is a role for the government, on the public health and safety side, or if a flammable material is being turned into toys and is in danger of catching fire and burning kids -- that is something you want to have. but i would not micromanage. i do not want a consumer protection agency that goes from protecting our safety to micromanaging our choices. there is a big difference in those jobs. how about this gentleman, right

here? >> thank you for visiting with us today. could you share your thoughts on the f-35 fighter program? >> i have a certain bias here, because i used to represent lockheed martin in marietta, georgia, which was building the f-22, a really cool aircraft. i would argue a slightly cooler air plan and the f 35. the a 35 is a good plane, but it is a cool air plan. the f-35 is the heart of our strategy for the next 30 years. we have to make it work. we have to recognize how -- my hunch is -- this is a hunch, not uninformed opinion. my hunch is the phase beyond f- 35 is an unmanned vehicle. you are seen the evolution of

unmanned vehicles. the f-35 will be a mainstay of delivering ordinance and providing air superiority has at least 30 years. i think we want to make it there. we want to make it a worldwide product. if you look at the f-16 experience, it has been terrific for our industrial base to continuously sell f-16 half a lot of places. -- f-16's a lot of places. i cannot imagine what would fill the vacuum if we cancel the program. there would be nothing there to fill the vacuum. the chinese and russians will not wait to move into next- generation fighter aircraft and next generation surface-to-air missiles. it is a lot more complicated very fast. how about right down here? you are getting a workout today, carrying that microphone. >> thank you for coming and taking our questions. i was curious. as i am sure you are well

aware, presidents with visions are great, but do not necessarily get policies accomplished. from your role, how does president do you make things happen and turn it into real policy? >> let me draw a distinction. presidents who have visions that do not get accomplished are just making speeches. you are not getting anything done. we do not hire them for that purpose. i came in as a freshman under carter, who was not getting much done. in fact, he carter had 13% inflation, 22% interest rates. we were sliding into a recession which would end with 10.8% unemployment. we had the hostage crisis. the soviets invaded afghanistan. they were in nicaragua, starting to go into costa rica, el salvador.

we had gasoline rationing every other day based on the last number of your license plate. i had a good friend who was 13 that year. he remembers it vividly because his job every morning was to go out back with a screwdriver and make sure the car that needed gasoline had the right license plate. i have always thought it was a great test of whether you are a liberal or conservative. by telling you we had a policy so stupid we retreating 13 year olds to get around it -- a conservative says we should drop the policy. as a liberal, you said that is proof we need a license plate police of every gas station. that is an easy task. -- test. reagan demand. people forget. in 1980, there were serious articles written. "is the presidency to big? --

too big?" by august of 1981, nobody would write the article. reagan had been head of the screen actors guild. he negotiated and led a strike. he was governor of california, six of eight years with a democratic senate. he really rim to achieve something, not just a posture. reagan understood two key things. one was that his power was directly related to his ability to communicate with the american people. he tried to shine the light at the american people so they would turn up the heat on congress. all the speeches for educational, to get people to understand why he was doing what he was doing. that was the first basis of his presidency.

he understood every day that if he did not have independents and democrats, he could not govern. i did a movie. we have a scene where gerald ford invites him to come to the convention and speak. reagan's opening line is, "my fellow republicans." he pauses. "ms those democrats and independents around the country who agree with us." he knew instinctively he had to be inclusive. he could not just be a republican president. i helped to develop a piece of the '80 campaign. i helped organize the first capitol steps event in history. the minute the election was over, we had won control of the senate. we won six senate seats by a total of 75,000 votes. i thought the capitol steps helped each of those marginal candidates just enough to get over the top. but we did not have the house.

tip o'neill was speaker. he was a hard core boston-irish politician who believed in liberalism. this is a sincere guy. he is going to defend the whole thing. we realized we had to get one out of every three democrats to vote with us. from day one, here reagan and the house republicans are working to find that one out of three democrats, and we did. when i got to be speaker -- jumping ahead to president. that is from a future speech. when i got to be speaker, it was patently obvious if i wanted anything signed into law i had to get bill clinton's signature. i could posture and schedule votes and play games. in the end, through our constitution, he could not get

anything if i would not schedule it, and i could not get anything if he would not sign it. would hit each other at a press conference, and then meet for five hours. this went on for weeks. it is simple. you walk into a room. you close the door. you say, "i have to do this." is hard to build a box and figure out what can i give you that does not violate my beliefs. frankly, you maneuver a fair amount. we knew the election was coming. we knew 90% favored welfare reform. we finally passed a third time, and he signed it. he claims credit, and he should. he was the president. he reformed welfare. but i can claim it because i passed it three times. jim baker in our movie comments

reagan always believed the purpose of a negotiation was to get what he needed. -- get an agreement. he would rather get 80 percent when come back later for the other 20%. when the go to reykjavik to meet with gorbachev, reykjavik offers to dismantle the entire soviet nuclear arsenal if reagan will give up ballistic missile defense, and reagan says no, because it is a step too far. by holding tough, six months later, gorbachev comes back and years of reagan and virtually everything he wants to produce nuclear vessels. it is not like reagan will take a bad deal, but he is always trying to find a way to say what can he get done.

callisto and i have talked about this at length. she used to be on the agricultural committee. i served on public works, which is very bipartisan. we wanted to reach out to every elected democrat as well as every republican, and find a way to break the logjam and get a deal done. that is a great question. that lady right there. >> i understand from my colleagues that you are a huge proponent of six sibma. -- sigma. you asked the house subcommittees to come back, with the help of academia and practitioners. and i was wondering -- come back with results for how they could leave out some of the procedures they do every day. i was wondering what the results were of that. >> nothing. the you use something like lien six sigma here? does it make you more

productive, less wasteful? >> yes. >> i think i am the only candidate who can describe that and can say that as president i would ask the congress to go through a training -- training program, both members and starks. i would ask every incoming appointee to go through a training program. the only way you can go through something like this is you learn it. it is not a magic formula you do on your blackberry. it is a different culture, a different mind set. that is one of the reasons i am running. let me summarize and ask your help. the reason i am running is i believe our problems are so complicated and difficult that we need somebody who actually understands them intellectually and has a chance of managing the change, and has the willpower, the drive, and the discipline to get it done, but can also articulate it so every

american could be part of it. i do not think 537 elected officials are good to fix it. i think the country is going to fix this. the job of the next president is to work with the american people together. i do not ask you to be for me and say, "i hope newt fixes it." i want you to be with me and stand shoulder to shoulder to get this done. from every poll, this election is wide open. it is a classic new hampshire last-minute -- you thought you understood us, and boy were you wrong. i really do ask for your help. i ask you to be beside me. i hope you will talk to your friends and neighbors and encourage them to vote for me tomorrow. if you do not like what i am doing, i hope you will say nothing to anyone. i know we are running late. we would love to meet you, if

we can. are we going to do it next door? i'll do what i am told -- but i would like to meet you if i possibly can. thank you very much. [applause] >> he was scheduled to speak to his supporters monday night but the event was canceled because of security concerns. here's a few minutes of the scene outside. [unintelligible] [laughter]

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thank you for putting this reception together. i understand we were starting to have this may be at your home. it looks like the meeting outgrew the home. i am glad we were able to come here and still have our gathering. before get started i would like to introduce a few members of my family that have been traveling with me. my wife is sitting over here, carol. [applause] one daughter-in-law and her daughter, peggy. [applause] thank you for coming out. i guess you have noticed the campaign has picked up a lot of steam and interest where vertigo. there has been a lot of questions but there are still some that are not decided and

hopefully we can reach them with the program i have been talking about and why i think we got into trouble. and what we have to do. no matter where i have gone around the country, whether it is in iowa or different places and also on the talk shows and tv programs, the issue has been the economy. of course when -- the first time i ran for office was in the 1970's and i ran at that time because i saw some big changes being made in our monetary system. if one understands how financial bubbles are formed, we should have come to the conclusion we embarked on -- in a dangerous time. that is a long time ago but it is important history. the bubble that has burst and the correction we're going through and why employment still a rious problem.

we've embarked on a financial bubble, the biggest in the history of the world. the marketplace tries to unwind the mistakes made by politicians and by central bankers to correct mistakes. if you have a system that encourages debt and to equate that with prosperity, it will keep building until you run out of production. that is what happened. we have too much debt and not enough production. we cannot keep up and we cannot fudge the books. this is why people have grown very interested in -- my interest in my subject and why at the beginning at the least, we had to have a full audit of how the federal reserve system has been operating. [applause]

because of the monetary system it contributes to this distortion. the rst distortion and why people feel badly about how their economy is going even if they have a job, people feel frightened about what might come. that is with the destruction of money. history shows you destroy the middle class. destruction of money means to valuation. the history s been lousy. nobody has wanted to talk about it. even though the founders understood and warned us and said we do not want to go through the destruction of a continental dollar like the winter. that is why i put it in the constitution that you could use gold or silver. it could not print money. we have been doing that for way too long and we ended up with this undermining of the middle class. when you have free markets, individual liberty, private property rights, contract rights like we enjoyed for so long, you have a large middle class. america was always known for its

rge middle-class and the wealthiest ever but this is not true anymore. the middle class is shrinking and their wealth the shrinking but it is a wealth -- is the wealth of the world shrinking? characteristicsf what happened, the wealth is taken from the middle class and it goes to a select few w are the insiders and that is what has happened. the people know about it. sometimes the anger toward -- directed at the unfairness of the system, they get confused about the enomics, but it has a lot to do with the monetary policies influencing washington. instead of the government being a protect of liberty, the government has become a distributor of wealth. this is why big money talks. money has more control of our system. that is why lobbyists get paid more than politicians. the lobbyists run the show. this is what we have to overcome.

one of the things why it is a challeing in this campaign, the people have been supporting me know darn well we're dertaking challenging decades of control of our government, undermining our personal liberties. involvement in a foreign policy that makes no sense. we need a policy that defense america and not pretend we can tell t world how to live. [applause] the moderators will come in and say we' going to talk about economics which is fine. i like to talk about economics but they do not want to talk about foreign policy. they say tonight will top foreign-policy but they do not want to talk about economics. but you've got to talk about both togher because this is connected to the economic system. we want -- there is no way you

can get out of recession or depression with war and people -- we have been taught that in school. the war goddess of the depression. comple nonsense. every penny you spend overseas, almost anything overseas is a draifrom the economy and that is why since we're not producing like we used to, that is why the economy is being drained and why we have to address foreign policy. the very best thing to do, it is simple, it is not complex. it says we should never send anyone to washington that will not promise and you believe that we will obey the constitution. we can stay out [inaudible] [laughter] [applause] whowe have had numerous war sine world war ii. these wars were very bad for us. we have been involved in nation- building in occupation.

countries that were far from perfect but theyever attacked us. what has it done? it has added $4 trillion worth of debt by be engaged overseas and we're not safer for. i do not believe we're safer. i do not believe people want to come and kill us because we're afraid and prosperous. that is -- has gone way astray. what we ought to do is think abt a form policy that follows the golden rule. we should not do anything to any other country that we would not have them do to us. [applause] if we were to follow the constitution require that the people give permission to war -- go to war, believe me we would not have had any of these wars in the last 20 or 30 years. because the congress would not have done it.

they did not what the debate. they could not prove there was a threat to our national security. this is important that we follow the rules, we know what our government is supposed to do. it is to protect our liberti. that is the no. 1 job. protect the liberties of every citizen and we gained that liberty in a natural way. we gave our liberties not from our government, but we gained them a from our creator and we should protect those liberties, we should not be telling people how to live, how to run the economy are telling the rest of the world what they ought to be doing. [applause] we change form policy, we can start talking about the necessity of dealing with the debt. that is a problem. it is similar to if you were indented over your head and you get to any credit cards and what youre learning to take care of your daily needs, you do not

have anything left to finance your debt. that is where we are today. we do not. to finance our debt we do not have enough growth or people left where we can tax them and pay for the debt. what we have to do is eliminate the debt. the debt, an individual has to sell stuff, pay down or declare bankruptcy. the market insists on bankruptcy. when our country, when our financial system became evident it was bankrupt, in 2008, a lot of people were doing a lot of dealing with derivatives. people paying money when the financial bubble was being blown up. when they went broke, they pay the bankers and corporations, they came screaming and hollering and there would be a depression. you got to bail us out. they did not desve to get

bailed out. that that should have been liquidated -- the debt should have been liquidated. [applause] we're still paying for that. what about the people who made the money during the financial bubble? they're back in business again. their corporate leaders are making big bucks. they're making a lot of money out of getting money from the federal reserve at practically zero interest. the system is very biased. it has changed dramatically from the time of our founding. the emphasis is not on liberty anymore. the emphasis is on special interest and controls. right now the american people have awakened. they all the sudden realize, even those with jobs, even those who seem to be doing ok, there is a subtle discontent in this country. it is the worst our country has experienced. we have gone through a lot of

rough times. the great depression, the two world wars. i think the lack of confidence in the future is more significant than ever before because the foundations have been undermined. the foundation of the free- market and property rights. we do not own our property anymore. also the foundation of the monetary system and the foreign policy that does not serve our national defense needs and the people know this and they are begging and pleading for answers. this is a story i have talked about and offered solutions and tried to point out to -- the financial bubbles but there was not much attention paid to it. i never really thought one way or another whethernyone would pay attention. right now it just happens they are interested. the world has changed. our country has changed from four years ago. i was not involved in a campaign three or four years ago. there was a lot of support but it was not enough to say it is

coming, let's prevent it. it hit. it hit in 2008 and people are looking and wondering about what we can do. we have to cut spending. that is top priority. to get the spending under control and get the data under control. you cannot keep running a debt and keep printing the money. that is a road to dister. in the first year we should cut real spending by $1 trillion. [applause] worry going to cut $1 trillion? if you do not cut, everything goes to pot. everything is destroyed because the money will not work. even the people you are trying to help you cannot help them. the more you print the money the lesson has the value. the only way we can work our way out is proposing these cuts.

i do not -- the workplace -- the worst places to start with child health care or social security. or medicare benefits. we can work our way out of it but you have to be willing to cut other things and that is why we as americans not only as conservatives bumoderates and liberals, we should agree that it makes no sense to spend much over $1 trillion a year over -- overseas. why do we not spend that money here at home? [applause] half the cuts would come from overseas. i do not believe for one minute it undermines defense. cutting military is a lot different than cutting defense. people say he wants to cut all the defense. i do not. i want more money for the defense. i want to defend this country

and not be involved in wars that did not help us at all. the other money spent would have to cut back at home. fire departments. the first department would be the department of education. [applause] if we look at education in a constitutional fashion, education in a free society is the responsibility of parents. [applause] there are no prohibitions for the state to be involved in education. there is no authority at the federal level but the government had better make sure there is never a law that prohibits homeschooling or private schooling to compete. [applause]

other departments, the department of energy, commerce, interior, hud, think of all the damage had dead. we will take care of the poor. everyone will have free health care and education and houses. everyone can qualify. for a loan. we have students graduating and they're not trained to do the jobs. i have a $1 trillion debt and they cannot get a job. ud, forced theha bankers to make loans to risky lenders. the price of the house keeps going up. keep growing. is is wonderful until the bubble burst. the people who were involvedn the mortgage derivatives were making a lot of money. what happened to the middle

class? the got -- they got the debt and lost their jobs and houses. you cannot provide the goods and services through government edict. this is what we have to realize. if you want goods and services, if you want the maximum distribution, you have to pay attention and you have to believe that the free-market is a much better distributor of wealth than the u.s. government. [applause] one of the shortcomings that we come up with, whether we call ourselves libertarians, conservatives, or constitutionalists, we have -- we compete with people who are well motivated and they believe themselves to be humanitarian. those of us who believe the market ought to work in protecting liberty as most important, the cold hearted.

it would be logical to conclude that we are the true humanitarian, not them. [applause] we do need to cut back. we could do this with protecting certain programs and work our way out of it but we cannot do it without looking into the monetary system and foreign policy. we have to look at the property rights. we have to look at individual liberty. of all these things i have been talking about, it is individual liberty that would protect us. the right to your life and liberty, you ought to have the right to keep the fruits of your labor. [applause] individual liberty is under threat as well. once you have a perpetual war atmosphere, personal liberties have always been under attack. today there are.

we have more attacks on our personal liberty, whether it is the patriot act, i do not think we need the patriot act to undermine your personal liberty. [applause] also now, recently, the government gave the president the authority to use the army to arrest an american citizen without charges and held indefinitely. that is not protecting the american tradition. those kind ofnfractions and insults to the american people have to be addressed. have to give confidence once again that a free society and free markets work. we cannot continue to depend that the government wallace to care less. what we need is a free society where we are allowed to take care of ourselves. i believe in that. [applause] we have a wonderful opportunity

to express those views, it will be torrow night. i am encouraged. the young people i meet that really encourage me. because they are enthusiastic about hearing the truth, even if it is negative and you have a big dent -- debt. they become excited and optimistic. if you admit you have a problem be consulted. -- maybe you can solve it. people are starting to once again look at the great issues and the great ideas and all those principles that made america great. thank you very much. [applause] >> we have time for two or three questions. if you would take ron's lead

here. >> we are going to try to get as many questions as we can. we have a little bit of time. >> go ahead and pick somebody. >> i believe many americans think that the value in keeping the bases overseas is because by pulling the bes out of the overseas countries like germany and japan, it sort recognizes that our empire is shrinking. maybe they cannot handle that. how can you get them to see the benefit in doing that? >> the empire -- [inaudible]

for economic reasons. we had to stand up and pay them. i was drafted in the 1960's and served. they have a lot of these weapons. they had to be dissolved for economic reasons. they went into afghanistan and got bogged down in afghanistan. we will come out. if you are talking about germany or japan -- where are not on the verge of being attacked. one of the greatest successes has been that we have a strong national defense. nobody is about to invade our country or attack us. people have to be convinced that bringing troops home is one way we have a -- [inaudible]

if it is the desire to maintain an empire i will do my best to spare you from that goal. i do not think an empire serves the interests of the freedom of an individual america. [applause] >> i feel strongly that protecting our environment is an urgent issue. i was wondering how to the enforcement of property rights, [unintelligible] how would you determine to prosecute when that violation is made? >> most people get worried when

you talk about free markets and propertyights. there will not be in good and -- environmentalists for it if you look at a government that has the most extreme amount of government, they have been the worst protectors of the environment. if you look at private property, most people who own property have an interest in taking good care of it. that comes up with the subject of pollution. if you have a strict understanding of property, nobody has the right to pollute anybody. you caot dump their garbage in your neighbor's yard. you should not able to dump chemicals or allowed to police the water. -- pollute the water. you should be held accountable. a big problem occurred when there was a collision between big corporations and big government. i was raised in pittsburgh and it was one of the most filthiest cities in the country. the rivers were filthy and the

skies were filthy black. that got cleared up with the protection of rights by the city. a longime before the epa. the epa is a bureaucratic special interest answer to a problem that should be answered with private property rights. the basic principle is that if you and force contract rights and property rights, you would be much tougher a lot sooner than we have been. i do not believe the bureaucratic approach can ever do the trick. [applause] >> can you address agenda 21 fax >> you are talking about the un? this is a little more than i can say since my position is we

should not be in the united nations. [applause] any plan of the un to undermine our national sovereignty i am opposed to and would want to protect it. right now the biggest threat to the international government is in the monetary affairs. theynow what we know about the monetary system. they know there is a crisis coming and they're talking about monetary reform and they are talking about an international paper currency run by the imf which is part of the united nations. that is a big threat and that is why we should not be in tho organizations. we have to more -- two more. [applause] towards the mic.

>> [unintelligible] nikes made in south america. a lot of the work of the private sector can be compared to slave labor. how should we address this? >> are you talking about -- >> sweatshops. >> it is not true slave labor. they work for very little. i do not have sovereignty over other nations over what they should and should not do. i cannot go down and change it. my job is to make sure that we do the best to set an example in this country so others will do the same thing. what we want to do is protect civil liberties in this country and make sure we have sound money d a prosperous economy and have a foreign policy. we have a policy where people

believe that america is an exceptionanation. i think we are. what they believe because we are exceptional that we have the responsibility to invade a country anin force that -- force that country to do is we do and i do not agree. we are exceptional but i think we are slipping. we should work much harder to be an exceptional nation, to practice what we peach, -- preached, to make sure we have a market and have prosperity and have people look and say, america is a great place. try to copy them? that would be a better -- better than forcing them to do something. >> what is your stance on legal and illegal immigration? >> we should not he any.

my approach is not to reward something that is illegal. if states are forced to provide services and benefits to illegal immigrants, there will make benefit of it. illegal immigration idown. that tells you something about how weak the economy is. the jobs are not going begging. even today under welfare, this system encourages them not to take jobs they did not have to take if they did not get these benefits. we should not be forcing preschools and -- free schools and for medical care on people here illegally. we should have a revamping of the whole thing about the workers program. we should keep the doors as open as we can. i have people come to me looking for workers, even today they are

coming because our people are not as ll-trained. we do not want to close that off. we should not have this problem with illegal immigration. i think we should have more control on our borders. i am disgusted we spend so much time worrying about the borders between afghanistan and pakistan. [applause] one more. >> i serve on a local school board and i support the department of education. the system is broken. how are we going to fix it? how do we get the power out of the unions and to start teaching these children? >> union power is the right word. it is not workers' rights.

voluntary contracts are the basic principle of the marketplace. if a businessman, and they no longer prohibit unio from forming. there should be no power to force unions on a businessman that does not want to have them. u should have a voluntary unions. as long as you understood the principle of voluntary association of three it when it comes to government, that is where the bigger problem is, with the union. it should be our officials who are representing us as the private marketplace. they should not be signing these countries -- contracts. the right to work is very important. the federal government has caused probls with the relations board. that gave artificial power to a

certain group. the market is the most powerful force toaise wages. we do not want to throw a out a system of a volunteers because the problems of the depression had nothing to do with a lack of labor unions. yet th say they could force labor prices to correct some of these problems. you want prices to go down. prizes -- prices of housing is going down. this fixation of wages makes us less competitive. states lose jobs that don't have it. jobs going south. and they go overseas. there is a lot of regulation. you cannot avoid that discussion if you want to change the environment. thank you for coming. [applause]

>> good evening new hampshire. are you ready? are we ready in the "live free or die" stake to cast a vote that will be heard are on the world -- state to cast a vote that will be heard around the world? are we ready to put governor romney in the white house and turn our economy around? are we ready? [cheers] are we ready to ensure that governor romney is the next president so that none of us will ever have to apologize for being an american? are we ready? [cheers] i am ready. you are ready. and i have three friends to introduce who are ready. three great american patriots.

first, senator kelly aiot and her veteran husband from the air force, joe. the center is a rising star in washington, doing a great job for all of us. and i have another good friend of new hampshire, gov. tim pawlenty from minnesota. [applause] from the liberal land of hubert humphrey and gene mccarthy, this guy cut taxes and balance the budget and is a leading conservative voice across our country. ladies and common, senator kelly aieot. >> thanks so much. i'm here with my wing man, joe daly, and i'm so what to have him here. our country is in trouble. this president has added close

to $5 trillion to our debt. we cannot stand for more years of barack obama. [applause] but i am so encouraged tonight about america. we have mitt romney running for president. he is someone who, unlike this president, has actually balanced budget both in the private sector and as governor of massachusetts. he eliminated a deficit, bounced the budget, but money in -- balanced the budget, put money in the rainy day fund and that is what we need in the washington d.c. [applause] he is someone who knows how the economy works. he will get the private sector

working again, and on like this president that we have right now, he knows that our jobs are not created in washington d.c. , they are created by the small businesses here in new hampshire, and a large businesses all around the country. [applause] and finally, my husband and i, we come from a military family. joe served in the iraq war as an a-10 pilot. [applause] one of the reasons we are supporting mitt romney, one of the most important reasons, is that he will be an excellent commander in chief. he will be a commander in chief who will listen to his military commanders, and not his pollsters or political of geysers, and has just says, he will never apologize for the -- political advisers, and has jeff says, he will never apologize for the united states of america.

we will be proud to have him in the white house. [applause] we have seen around the country that strong, conservative leaders are coming forward to support mitt romney for president. it is my honor tonight to introduce one of those strong conservative leaders for our country, the former governor of minnesota, tim pawlenty. [applause] >> thanks a lot. i appreciate it. do you agree with me that new hampshire has one of the greatest united states senators in the congress today? [applause] kelly is awesome. have you had enough of barack obama? have you had enough of his rhetoric and then he does not deliver what he has promised? have you had enough of barack obama as saying he will cut the

deficit in half during his first term and then he'd triples it? have you had enough of barack obama hurting our defense capabilities? have you had enough of judges who will apply the law like it is written on the back of a napkin is that of the way it is written? are you ready to support mitt romney? [applause] i want to give you two messages before i make an introduction of our featured speaker tonight, the next president. one is this, i grew up in in the packing town. my mother was a homemaker. she passed away when i was young and my lap -- my dad lost his job not too long after that. one of the big challenges for the next president is to make sure that we have a country that does those things that encourage job growth in america, not discourages it.

when you ask people all around this country who run small and medium-sized businesses, as mitt romney did until not long ago, what can you do to make it more likely that we grow jobs, and you know what they say? they say, get the government off my back. [applause] some talk about taxes, some talk about regulation, and some talk about energy, but it is the same message. it is not based on a lifetime in washington d.c., secure life time and politics, but on the growing businesses and providing jobs in the private sector. there's only one candidate cut meet that description, and it is mitt romney. -- that needs to that description, and it is mitt romney. [applause] all across america people want to know if they can get their kids in college, can they pay their of insurance, is my family going to be ok.

the main way that we will answer the question is whether they have a job. it has been a real treat to get to know mitt romney. we traveled together on various trips when i was governor. i got to know him behind the scenes, so to speak. he is a great man of character and integrity. he loves his family. you watch him and ann romney and it is obvious they loved each other and they have been married 40 years or more. he is a great dad. he is a great grandpa. he has an incredibly loving relationship with his grandchildren. it is great to see the strength of the character of his family. i will not just introduced the next president of the united states, but i will introduce within the group of people that helped keep him grounded, that

shaped his values, and you will see not just him, but the next great first lady, ann romney. i would like to introduce a very large portion of the tremendous run the family. not all of them, but a very large portion of the tremendous romney family. ladies and gentlemen, mitt romney. [applause] ♪ >> [crowd chanting "mit!"] >> thanks very much. i hope you'll give me a bigger margin of victory and then the eight votes i got in iowa. [applause]

i want to thank you for being here tonight. you may wonder who are all of these people. on the far right, that is not my son. that is my brother. scott is albany, by the way. and then there are three of my boys. my oldest son is a doctor. craig, the youngest of my five boys. he lives in california. his wife is separated. there they are. they are together again. there is joe with his dad. this is confusing. there are from california with their four children. this is nick, chloe, mia, and make the grade. -- nate, the great.

[applause] if i did not have a family that was behind me and encouraging the and if i did not have a wife quitting yet to this, i do not think i would be -- putting me up to this, do not think that would be doing this. last time round i decided i was uncertain and i did not think i wanted to do it again, but she said i have got to. my sweetheart, ann romney. [applause] >> i see a lot of people that we have known and loved for a long time. thank you. it's great to have my family here. we are so appreciative of everyone who has been here for us. i think you have heard me say before that after the last election, you one thing was certain, i was never going to do that again.

it reminds me that i said that after each pregnancy. [laughter] and you notice, i've got a few sons. off but about a year ago, miffs and i were figuring this out. -- mitt and i were figuring this out and we were going to all of the roadblocks, which i was aware of. and i said, i just want you to answer one question, just one. can you turn america around? and his answer was yes. then i said, no question, you have got to run. [applause] we are in it because i believe america is in peril. we are in stormy seas right now. and who knows what is coming down and what kind of difficulties this country will face. but i know something else. if the life -- the light that ronald reagan talked about, the

shining light on the hill, that life is fading. i need someone to get in there and turn up that fight. let's hear it for the next president of the united states. [applause] >> she always says that, you know that? she speaks like the and people say, why shouldn't she be president instead of you? it is so frustrating. thank you, sweetheart. i want to thank all of you for being here this evening. you have a border security problem here in new hampshire. some folks from massachusetts made it is across the border. you have a republican delegation from massachusetts. and greg johnson, the leader of the republican house.

and as you know, our legislature is about 85% democrat, so i appreciate you being up here. thank you, guys. it is good to have you [applause] -- not to have you here. [applause] -- is good to have you here. [applause] we announced that i was going to run for president. it's i know a number of you were there. and we have been coming to new hampshire for 40 years. we would go slowing in the lakes here with our children. -- swimming in the lakes here with our children. we taught our little guys how to ski here. taught them how to water ski and we love the people of new hampshire. we love the yankee spirit of "live free or die."

i do not know who captured the phrase, but it so typifies the people of this state that you love your freedom and the founding vision of this great country. i love new hampshire. i appreciate your welcoming us here tonight. if i am president of the united states, will not forget new hampshire. i will make sure that new hampshire has a place in the white house. if i'm president of united states. [applause] america faces a very stark choice of direction. which way are we going ahead over the coming years? i happen to believe that we are now seen played out before the american people a very stark difference between the two courses that we can take. i have seen a president that has faced the 35 straight months of unemployment he said he

would -- unemployment above 8%. he said he would borrow $87 billion and unemployment would drop. it has not been below 8%. 25 million people are out of work or have stopped looking for work. people who were thinking of retirement now wonder if they can retire. people who were wondering which college they might go to are now looking at whether they should get another minimum-wage job to make ends meet. this is a detour for america. this president attitude is "well, it could be worse." that is not my view. i have a very different view about america.

i think we can put back to work to people who are out of work. i believe we can become the job-creating machine we once were. i believe we can once again make it the best place in the world to be middle income. we can also not just talk about, if would be better, but in fact, it must be better. if i were president of the united states, i would use all of my energy to create a better job environment for the people of america. and make things better for all americans. [applause] we have a president who said he was going to go out and be critical of the president. you recall president bush, saying that he borrowed too much money. and that the deficits were too large. then he came into power. now we have are three times as -- now the deficits are three times as much. he is on track in four years to put against america's future as much debt as all of the prior presidents combined, almost.

all the prior presidents combined. and think about that. he has put us on track to become the italy or the greece of the future. that is unsustainable. we cannot do it. the idea of consistently spending more money than we taken, to the kids out here,it is wrong. it is bad economics. it is not moral. if i am president of the united states, i will cut federal spending, balance the budget, cap how much the federal government spends. let's get spending under control. on the one hand, we have a president who thinks with our health care challenges we have -- he has all of the answers. he thinks his plan will be imposed upon the entire nation soon. he thinks government can do a better job of guiding our health care system than free people making their own choice. -- choosing their own course.

i happen to believe that he is wrong. i do not believe an obamacare. i will do something different. i will repeal obamacare on day one. with all the energy i can muster. [applause] i will need the help of congress to get that done, but i will also make sure that while we are waiting for the repeal to occur, the direct the secretary of -- i will direct the secretary of health and human services will grant a waiver from obamacare to all 50 states true, happen to believe that the people who should guide health care -- to all 50 states. because i happen to believe that the people who should get health care in this country are not government. but three people doing what they think is right for themselves. -- but are free people doing what they think is right for themselves. [applause] we have a president who thinks that his job is to stop all of the forms of energy that we are used to. holding off on coal and drilling for oil, and we fall further and further behind in demand.

-- in our obedience to the market demands of the oil cartel's overseas. if i were president, will develop the oil and gas and nuclear to finally become energy secure and independent of the oil cartel's. [applause] i really think this is a campaign about the soul of america. the question is, are we going to hold fast to the principles upon which this nation was founded, or are we going to take a different course? when the founders wrote the -- crafted this country and wrote the declaration of independence, they said we were endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, among them, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. in america, we have the right to pursue happiness as we choose. we can decide what we want to be by virtue of our education, our hard work, our risk taking,

our dreams. we can accomplish things that the whole world marvels at. that is what america has always been. i believe in that kind of america. it is a merit-based society, an opportunity society where people come here not for handouts, but opportunity. [applause] it is a nation where we know that our kids future will be unencumbered by the circumstances of birth and will be as broad and bright as their dreams, as their education, as their willingness to work and take risks. that is what we believe about america. i believe president obama would change the culture and the nature of this country. i think he wants to make this more like a european welfare state. if i am not willing to make america more like europe. i don't think europe is working in europe. i want to make america more like america.

to make us the hope of the earth. [applause] >> [crowd chanting indistinctly] > >> mitt! mitt! [unintelligible] >> mitt! mitt! mitt!

>> instead of shouting, why don't you say your views? madam, what do you think? >> [inaudible] >> and what is that? and who is the president that is spending more money than in the -- more money to campaign than ending -- in the history of america? [cheers] the answer is, this president is spending money and has spent money, more than we have over our history. we had a public funding plan for our presidents. and this president has and no one --this president has been the first two throws of the public spending program, to break all of those barriers, and to spend massively more than any other president in this country's history. we know better than to hand over a second term. [cheers and applause] i get a chance to see these guys come out here and protest and ask them, what would you

replace america with it? what kind of system which you have? they don't know. [laughter] and the truth is, there has never been anything in the history of the earth that has freed people from poverty like america. -- three enterprise, american style. -- free enterprise, american- style. [applause] you can't places like china. even china -- you look at places like china. even in china, they realize it is free enterprise and capitalism. now it's up with the way we practice it, but the principles of america and of freedom will prevail. that is why we are going to stand for freedom for us and for our kids. [applause]

you guys, i love this country. i learned to love america when i was just a kid. my mom and dad -- there are a couple of kids right there. hi, you guys. my mom and dad took me to the national parks. as i went to the national parks, i saw the beauty of the land. i also heard from mom and dad, their views about the founding of the country and their passion for the founders and their view terror -- their views on the future of america. i often heard my parents talk about their favorite national hymns. not only "the star spangled banner," but "america, the beautiful," one of my favorites. some of those verses you know. o beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties. we have a few purple mountains here in new hampshire.

there's another first verse that i love. all beautiful for heroes prove in liberating stride, who more than self their country love, and mercy more than light. will the veterans in their room, acting national -- the veterans in the room, acting national guard and reservists, will you raise your hand? [applause] thank you for your service. there is one more verse, and that is "oh beautiful, for patriot dream, that sees beyond the years." i believe that this vision of the founders, this passion for freedom and opportunity, that it was not designed just for their time, but ours as well. it sees beyond the years in terms of its impact and relevance. if i am president of the united states, i will restore a passion for the founding principles of this great land to get americans back to work, to rein in this government and to make sure that we are strong run the world.

-- of around the world. i am dismayed as i watched the president talk about shrinking our military. the president would take us in a direction that would make america's military smaller. -- less and less powerful relative to the rest of the world. we are a patriotic people. we love america. we're going to come together and make sure that we keep it as it's always been, that shining city on a hill. i love this country and we will do our best to keep america strong and free together. together you're going to make a good big statement tomorrow. let's take kdot -- let's take it to the next stage. give me the boost i need, i hope. thank you so much. [applause] ♪ [bob seger's "born free"

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i have no idea what it is going to happen tomorrow night. we're going to surprise all lot of people in this country tomorrow night.

we had a few people standing around and many of them came in many of you now are our friends. with this look of disbelief. a sense of indifference, what is this candidate all about. tonight we stand here with a great following in the state you are all part of a movement and i'm grateful to have u.s. part of it, but since june 21 and last night, we together have done 170 public events in the granite state's[applause] 170 events, ladies and gentlemen. it's incredible. you know what? to the people of this state -- they don't want to be told for whom to vote, and they sure don't want the establishment sending up the same old people.

they want a new generation of leadership, a new generation of energetic leadership that is going to get the job done. you are part of that movement. your part of that movement, folks. but let me remind you all of a couple of things before we shake hands and move out. do we have work to do tonight and tomorrow? we have some work to do. let me remind you first. i am grateful to the standing -- to be standing with you, who are friends and colleagues and volunteers and supporters. i cannot think you enough. -- i cannot thank you enough. we have people from all over the country who are here. we have some folks who got in cars the other end of the country and grove, people who -- in just drove, people who got on buses and made their way because they believed in a better america. that is who you are. that is who you are, ladies and gentlemen. [applause] i travel around this state.

i looked at every sinai pass, -- every sign that pass. and there are a lot of them out there. i am reminded that somebody wrote that signed. -- put up that sign. somebody volunteered in our name, to keep weight out to the -- took it way out to the other side of the state, and had enough interest in the country to put that in the ground. for those of you who have run for president before, that is a pretty awesome deal, when you go down the highway and see your name on design. -- your name on a sign. that is pretty cool. then he stopped to think it is all about volunteers. it is all about the team. i hear reports. i have called some of you about this. some of our volunteers have called thousands and thousands of people. thousands and thousands of people they have called. we have folks putting up signs. we have people ready to get out the vote, people who've been making calls, people who have been organizing all 10 counties around here. are we ready to rock and roll

tomorrow? we are ready to rock and roll. [applause] point number two. this is bigger than all of us here in this room, you know what i mean? this is america. this is our country. we are here not to play politics. we are here as americans first and foremost. and we are here to put our country first. did you like the debate yesterday morning? [applause] i think we reminded a certain other candidate in the race that our team and our movement is here to put our country first, and we are tired of people putting politics first. [applause] we are all americans first and foremost. we want a better tomorrow, and what we are about to hand down

to the next generation is unacceptable. unacceptable. it is and who we are. -- it is not who we are. we are blue sky, problem- solving, optimistic people. we are americans at the end of the day. this is not who we are. we are in a whole, and we are about to get out of it with new leadership. we are about to get out of it with new leadership. remember this is bigger than all of us. this is about a country we love. it is about the next generation of americans we are going to fight for, because they deserve it. they deserve it. when we leave tonight, and when we put in as hard work tomorrow that i know we are all going to be prepared to do -- we will be up bright and early, and we are going to work our tails off all day long. i want you to remember as to carry on tomorrow that this is about a country we love. it is not about politics. this is about us as americans. it is about the greatest nation that ever was, the united

states of america. [applause] [chanting: usa] and i want you all to remember as we are working tomorrow -- you should think tonight about what tomorrow might bring. you should think about what we are going to accomplish together, because when we get to the and the road, to the white -- to the end of the road, to the white house, we are going to get a few things done. we're going to get term limits for congress, finally, once and for all. [applause] and we are going to close the revolving door for lobbyists, members of congress coming out and screwing things up. [applause] congress going to tell we are going to dock your pay

until you balance the damn budget, for heaven's sake. we have been in the war on terror for 10 years. we love our men and women in uniform. they are the best of our nation. and we have something to show for the work they have done. we have routed the taliban. we have dismedwe have had free . we have strengthen civil society, helped the police and military. folks, we are coming home from afghanistan. [applause] and we're going to begin to rebuild this nation of ours. we are going to rebuild this nation. we will get our core strong. we have no effective foreign policy, no effective national

security strategy, with a weak nation at home. we are going to strengthen this nation and remind the world of what it means to be americans. [applause] and we are going to project those values that we have become so well known for -- liberty, democracy, human rights, and open free markets. because when our nation is strong, we move people. we change lives. we change history. nobody does it like united states of america. it starts with a strong country on the home front we are all going to work for. you know what else we are going to do? we are going to right-size those banks that are too big to fail. [applause]

i say what kind of deal is this? we have been there. we have done that. we are not going to bail anybody out again, for heaven's sakes. just remember as you wake up tomorrow morning, as you get out taking your friends out to vote -- this is what we are all going to do, right? are you with me on that? we are going to do it with the idea in mind that this movement of ours is going to nail the economic and deficit, because we are not passing $15 trillion down to the next generation, i am sorry. but just as importantly, we are going to work on the trust deficit in this country. you hear what i am saying? i am sick and tired of there being no trust by the people toward their institutions of power. [applause] we are a nation founded on trust, and we are going to get back to trusting one another,

and we are going to work to come together as americans. you know what else we are going to talk about? coming together as americans. this divided stuff -- no more. we are coming together as americans to start solving our problems. [applause] [chanting: usa] >> we have some work to do. this is what i have been asking everybody recently. i am a shameless salesman at this point. i was even at a bakery this morning. the lady running the cash register was on the phone to the dairy company and i said, "give me that phone. i have to ask that person for a vote." i got a vote on the other end. it worked. every vote counts. when you walk out of here, here it is in the name of pulling this nation together, putting

our country first. it is in the name of working tirelessly for the next generation. what i have been asking people for is their vote, and here is the deal. when i asked people for a vote, i am also asking them for their trust. just like to have all of you. every volunteer, friend, associate -- you are here because you trust we are going to do the job. you trust we are going to hold true to our word, which is rare in politics these days. i have gone around this great state and asked people for their vote, and i am also asking people for their trust, because let's face it. at the end of the day, there is nothing more valuable you can give to another person and trust. it is a big deal. all of us in this room and beyond are going to be fuelled by a trust. it is what makes this country work.

we need a system that in fuses that notion of trust into our system once again. as you are working tomorrow, i want you to remember the word, "trust." it there is one word that summarizes everything we are trying to do -- everything is trust. that is what this movement is about. that is what this campaign is all about. i believe that trust is going to take us all the way to the finish line tomorrow night, and we are going to surprise the world. thank you all for being here tonight. let's go to work. thank you. thank you. [applause] [music: u2 "beautiful day"]

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[unintelligible] >> what explains this momentum? >> hard work. we want to get as many votes as possible. in how you respond to mr.

romney? >> we are going to make it happen. we have a lot of work tomorrow. for america. >> earlier on monday, rick santorum and his wife stop in for 20 minutes at a restaurant in derry, the third of five campaign events for the day. >> thank you.

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>> we're going to try to do the best that we can. >> thank you. >> sari. -- sorry. new hampshire, right? [unintelligible] >> we are going to keep moving, guys. >> there you go. all right.

>> keep moving. >> at terrific big crowd. we feel very good. with a very strong and we're going to feel well -- finish well. in how much disney venture about setting expectations for south carolina >> how much is new hampshire about setting expectations for carolina? in it is. they have spent millions of dollars in television ads. at that time, that was new, so we're going to keep working hard and keep the message and the momentum going. >> i am so sorry.

>> mitt romney as saying that he is more electable. >> he has no record of his electability as a conservative. he is trying there weren't -- run as a concerted and he has never run our race is one. -- he has never won a race is one. you're going have to get out. let's go. you're going have to come out. >> let's go. >>, on, guys. >> if you let these folks get out, thank you. >> let's go. everybody out. >> let's go, guys. >> everybody out. [unintelligible]

>> everybody else. let's go. come on. come on, guys. everybody out. come on, guys. come on, come on. let's back up. we have people want to get out. everybody go out. >> look, out of respect to the owner, i am not going to say any more to the cameras. i would be happy to talk to you outside. so let's give these diners some space, ok? come on everybody. no more comments.

this man right here. >> come on, guys. [unintelligible] much to my dismay. how the front. -- out the front. [unintelligible]

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[unintelligible] >> we are going this way. [unintelligible] >> hey, come by here, too, rick. [unintelligible]

>> earlier today you talked about being in second place. >> i have been running really hard. i went down to south carolina last night -- yesterday and i had a great trip down there, there is a lot of enthusiasm. folks are anxious to get us down there. we have a great, great team there. hear, too.

we have a lot of great energy here. it was a short run all. governor romney pretty much live syrian -- lives here. he has spent a lot of money on television and we did not have it. you guys are here. we wanted the opportunity to keep our message just out there, not just for folks in new hampshire, but around the country. our hopes that our grass-roots effort and our team that we built here in the ideas we have been talking about will resonate here. i think that they have. they have moved up from 3% into the pack of those who have spent a lot more time and money than we have here. [unintelligible] that is a good place to be. oh, my goodness, yes. ron paul is right here about 17 times. -- has run here about 17 times. to do as well as them, i am not show that as possible but if we do it, that to me would be great.

[unintelligible] >> mitt romney says that he is electable in your not. -- and you are not as a lack of policy is. -- as delectable as he is. >> he has run three times and lost twice. he has run as a liberal, a moderate, and now is a conservative. i've run here -- i have run five times and won four, i have always run as a conservative and run four times out of five. who is the most delectable? it is an absurd statement because of budget people giving mitt romney money to see the establishment candidate when, we lost with john mccain, we lost with bob dole, we lost with jerry ford. and when we run with conservatives like ronald reagan, we have been able to win. that is what we need. this is a party that understands ultimately that we need a strong conservative voice out there to be a strong

alternative to barack obama and we are that alternative. over time, it will not be this primary are the next, but we will have several races down the road, it will be a one-on- one race, and you'll see mitt romney against rick santorum and we will win this. >> what he's going to do to keep people in their homes? home foreclosure is an epidemic. did in the best thing to do is improve the economy. get the economy going again, so we can see housing values going again and housing starts go up, and people being able to pay their mortgage bird that is the best way to do it. we've had a prolonged recession because this president has continued to crush the american economy with more and more regulations. the issued 150 regulations last year. it cost businesses over $100 billion.

a record. never before, two. time -- 2.5 times the average over the past few years. this is something that this administration does not get. they did top-down, higher taxes, destroying the economy. >> our poll has you moving ahead a little bit and falling back and forth place. -- into fourth place. >> i have seen polls that have been tied for third place. that came out today. look, it is all within the margin of error. i think your poll and other polls are showing a huge percentage of undecideds is still. none of those polls are taken before the debate. we're doing exceptionally well in both of those debates. we are the candidate that has the best ability to go to to toe with mitt romney and beat the establishment and have a strong, conservative, principal candidate tim take on barack obama. -- to make barack obama the issue in this campaign. >> is mitt romney a conservative?

>> i think he is on some issues. but we need a strong contrast. not someone who is good on one issue or two issues. he is good on some issues but he has a record of being a strong, -- i have a record of being a strong conservative deck and make a difference. who can energize the conservative base as well as through my policies and the work of done been able -- i have done in the past, to reach out. the stakes that we need to win, i am the one that has a track record of winning in those states. the policies fit in with the kind of voters that we need to defeat the bar " -- to feed barack obama. -- to defeat barack obama. >> said a third -- senator -- >> [unintelligible] >> we are going to go through and go to the back. >> thanks. >> do not let them come in.

we are going to go through. >> 3 people came up to me and asked me that. on war. >> military strikes. is the united states allowed to do strikes on other countries? >> yes. >> they are? >> yes. >> does congress have to approve it? didn't we're not talking about a full-scale engagement of military strikes on limited

targets. certainly i would consult with congress. you would not need their permission. if you're talking about president obama during strikes in libya, ok? that is a different situation, ok? >> welcome to dairy. >> thank you. in paris a real voters. >> hi, real voters. how are you? >> we want to take a picture right here. stop your place. -- stop here, please. >> all right. cheese.

and thank you very much. thank you, guys. >> by. >> goodbye. [unintelligible] >> i am the best guide. -- the best guy. hey, guys, how are you? >> first off, i did not say the

word black. you guys are making -- look at my record, look at my work of richard r. record of working in the community. you guys, it is really sad that you keep bringing this up. it is bad news. >> put him in a car. >> i have done more in the african-american community as a republican than any republican in recent memory. >> what do you hate to say to john huntsman? >> we are going to beat him. >> i am going around.

>> hey, guys? >> rick santorum also hosted a rally in manchester, monday evening. this is about 10 minutes. [applause] >> thank you, thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you so much. it is great to be here. thank you so much for the great crowd that is here. i want to just say that i have made 31 trips to new hampshire, people said, new hampshire is a tough state.

new hampshire is a place where someone with strong principals and conservative values will struggle. i think we will show them that new hampshire, the same new hampshire that voted for ronald reagan in 1980 over a moderate who they said could win, said, no, we're going to vote for the real conservative because we know the real conservative could win this race and change this country, and that is what we are going to do. [applause] i want to thank -- this is our ending rally here. fallbe back again in the as the nominee. [applause] i want to thank my team up here and obviously the first member of the team i have to thank is my family, this is my wife, karen. my daughter elizabeth. we've got daniel. the rest of the santorum family is already deployed in south carolina, working south carolina right now.

but we are here for the final two days. i want to thank my cochairs who are here. and also one who is not here, thank you for all of your help and support. [applause] when i came here, i came here to sort of see whether i would run for president, and this guy who is a political they appear, who ran a lot of campaigns, said he wanted to meet with me because he wanted to work on my campaign. he had just won a campaign for this guy named guinta here in new hampshire. [applause] and i said, i want the guy that got him elected. frank is a great guy. we come from the same heritage, but the italian-americans, and he has done a great job for us not just running new hampshire, but such a great job that he is now the campaign manager for my

campaign. let's give mike a big round of applause. thank you, buddy. this is a big election year there will be no election in your lifetime that will be more important than this one. i was talking to -- someone whose name you know, let me just put it that way, and he said, rick, if you have to tell people that this is it. this is it. this is someone who is not from this country, someone who loves this country, from afar. he has said to me, rick, please tell americans that this is the election that we cannot lose. this is an election whether we're going have a president and a country continues to believe in the greatness of the american people, that believes in a country where we build a great nations by believing in free people, not that we build the these horrible government

contraptions that tend to run our lives from the top-down. we need an american president who believes in the american people, believes in freedom, believes in our founding principles. this is your moment. barack obama is reelected, then america as we know it, as we know it will be gone. we will be a statist country. we will be a country that no longer is independent. we will be dependent on some many fronts that government will have so many cooks in to us that they will control us. -- hooks into us that they will controls. you were given a country by a

generation that sacrificed for freedom. [applause] it is now your turn. it is now your turn to make that sacrifice. and we are not asking much. our founders gave their lives, their fortune, and their sacred honor. i am asking you for 24 hours of effort to pull off a huge surprise here in new hampshire's, to give us that boost to show that the momentum is continuing, so that we can go down the south carolina, kick a little butt down in south carolina, a move down the florida, and keep ticking until we have a strong principle to conservative and a model of ronald reagan to be able to draw that sharp contrast with the statist declinist viewed that america's best days are behind the spirit that is obama's

steve. that is why drawing down the military. he is trying to manage declined instead of believing in you and the greatness of the american people. you here in new hampshire is said that you are the live free or die state. [applause] this president does not believe that. this president does not believe in that establishment -- and establishment republicans, they do not believe that much either. you are the live free or die state. tomorrow, prove it. go out and vote for someone who believes in that motta. who believes in the founding principles of our country, and you will shake up not just this country, you will shake up the world. thank you very much. god bless you. [applause]

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>> newt gingrich's schedule included a town hall meeting in nashua. this is about 40 minutes. [applause] >> i do not have any notes. will let the teleprompter on the

bus. let me say first, and just to remind all of us why we are here, i am running for president. i would very much like to have your support tomorrow, that is right, everywhere. only during the campaign. i want to take a couple of minutes and talk about something other than the campaign, because this is the first stop we have been on where we can really talk about national security in a very sophisticated way, with an audience that understands how important this is. i am an army brat. my dad spent 27 years in the infantry. i grew up in places like fort riley, stood guard, germany. i got to georgia when my dad was assigned to fort benning. i have a lifelong interest in

military affairs and national security. i decided in august 1958 that i would do what i am doing now, largely as a function of national security. i was 15 years old and my dad had convinced me the stuff was real. i think what many politicians and reporters do not realize is the extraordinary capabilities of the american military start at places like this. at places like this. what you are doing is fully as much a part of national security as the person in uniform at the point in afghanistan, are much -- iraq, or somalia, or an intelligence operative who may be covert, or the state department diplomat. the various capabilities to help develop, and companies that you across the country. we have an integrated capacity to bring science and technological knowledge to bear through a manufacturing process which enables our troops to have enormous advantages over our competitors.

i think that is very important to understand. when we first went into afghanistan, there were very small special forces teams that were sent in. but nobody has really written about how it actually works. these are brave people. they are trained people and courageous people. but by themselves, they would not be dramatically more capable. they might be more capable by a factor of three to one or four to one, what 300 to one. when the teams arrived, particularly in the north, the people they were dealing with fighting the russians and the taliban -- they got the fight. they have been doing it their lifetime. initially, they were puzzled by these very small teams, who

pulled out sat phones. the pulled out capabilities that went into space and then down somewhere. they began pulling back visual imagery from overhead. all sorts of things that began to come to bear so that the person at the point had the support of the entire nation. one of the stories i was told by the deputy commander in that period was that when they first began meeting with the northern alliance, the northern alliance said, "we will ride in the morning." i scared of them and said, "what do you mean?" they said, "we are going on horseback. it turned out the special forces field uniforms have a very large in seems -- have very large inseams, which, when you ride a horse, create a big problem.

this was physically painful. they got on a cell phone. -- sat phone. they found that if you got extra-heavy, super large pantihose, three pair provide a buffer with you are riding a horse. i have never recommended anybody go to fort bragg and walk up to one of these guys and say, "however the potatoes? -- how are the pantihose?" if i was doing a professional day at a joint forces command. like you, i broke out laughing. what people don't realize is think about the capacity to encounter the problem you have never thought of, the in the

middle of nowhere -- this is central asia. pick up the phone. make an of order. within 36 hours, had it airdropped. and not have a clue going in which thing you will need this time. you are an intimate part of the system. i will tell you one of the stories. i will talk about the president if utterly destructive policy proposal this week. i was down at yale university, teaching a course about 1983. i ask them to give a briefing. there had been a syrian-israeli engagement which was 101-one. that is, the syrians lost 101 aircraft and the israelis lost one. in my mind, this was the moment, l