against, providing tax incentives, tax breaks for people, direct college assistants, loan forgiveness, where do they come from? ?here were they raised i will conclude by saying this is more than just another election. these guysthese guys have a funy different view of this country and what will make a great. i guess it was a congresswoman who said i like firing people. -- it was a congressman who said "i like firing people." it is probably out of context when he said that, but what was not out of context as the basic point. he thinks it is more important for the stock holders and shareholders and investors in the venture capitalists to do well them for those employees to be part of a bargain.

it wasn't too long ago that companies, when they weren't in trouble, they look out for their employees even the bottom line would suffer a little bit. it is one thing to make a profit. it is another thing to maximize your profit to the extent and disregard what happens to people who work for you. that was not the republican party 24 years ago. it is the republican party now. i think they gotta back where. -- they got it backwards. we had eight years of that. it was a disaster. i think the american people are figuring it out. this is what we're willing to take to the american people. without a growing middle class,

america's capacity to do anything shrinks. we're going to do this. [applause] >> i want to say a couple of things. whether you are in the north country or in hanover or down elsewhere, those that joined from manchester, we thank you some much for joining today and bringing people together. there three ways you can get involved immediately. in the next several weeks, the president will be delivering his state of the union address. the vice-president standing right over his shoulder like he always does. you can host and a man. -- an event. the second thing you can do is as the republican's lead the -- as the republicans leave new hampshire hampshire and go to other states, we will be opening offices all across.

we want you to come be involved. he can help us build your local team. you can get out and talk to folks face-to-face. this is how we're going to win this campaign. the combined all of it at nh.barackobama.com. >> i want to add one thing. >> one of the five state i'm going to focus on is new hampshire. when i come up, pretend you know me. [laughter] [applause] >> you have anything else you would like to say? >> thank you. we're going to win this thing. in athe country is ready to move. we decide to move the brush out of the way. the next four years, we're going to have an opportunity to do the things he came to do and do its without the kinds of resistance we have -- recalcitrant interference we have had. thank you, new hampshire.

[applause] >> thank you for coming. we really appreciated. we are appreciative of all the help of the last few days. there is a lot of work to do. a lot of work ahead. we hope to see you soon. thank you. >> now look ahead to the south carolina primary which is held on saturday, january 21. host: adam beam is on line with us. thanks so much for being with us. how do the campaigns build on tonight's results in new hampshire and present them in a successful way to south carolina voters? guest: there is a difficult question. south carolina is so difficult -- different from new hampshire. clearly, each candidate has their own separate base they

are going after. you have rick santorum and rick perry going after the social conservative/evangelical votes centered mainly in the of state, south carolina, greenville area. then you have mitt romney and jon huntsman going after the more fiscal conservatives, the lower country, and if history repeats itself, that seems to be the winning strategy. john mccain did that in 2008 and got most of his support around the coast and the midlands, and then the social conservative/evangelical vote in the upstate was split between huckabee and fred thompson and a few others. you could have a situation like that again when you have rick perry and rick santorum and gingrich campaigning so hard. host: one thing to clarify for our viewers. in new hampshire, you can declare on election day, so it is like an open primary.

and independents were a factor. in jon huntsman possible showing. what is the situation with voting in south carolina? is it a close primary only? guest: no, it is an open primary so anyone can vote that is registered to vote. the deadline to register has already passed. i've seen numbers before where those who did not identify as republicans tend to vote in a block. that could be a significant factor in the election year. it seems to be a common thing here every year that everyone says, we're going to have an open primary and have this influx of democrats trying to skew the election results. there does not seem to be too much of that. host: we have heard a lot of discussion in the past 24 hours about the super pac's supporting newt gingrich and

the multimillion-dollar buy that they are making in your home state with clips from the documentary on bain capital. can you talk about that strategy and how likely it will play with south carolina voters? guest: south carolina voters are no strangers to negative ads and dirty tricks. south carolina seems to have a reputation for that. mitt romney as the front- runner, he has to expect that coming from gingrich, from perry and all those forces. everyone gunning for romney, and the question is, if they are successful in bringing him down, who are those voters going to go to? there's so many candidates, i think everybody in the race is bound to continue going and make south carolina their last stand. it makes sense to go after mitt romney with negative ads. but mitt romney also has more

money than anybody. he can also respond. he can do that on his own. it will be interesting to see how voters respond to that, and if they do, can they join forces behind that one not- romney candidate. host: what is the level of enthusiasm among south carolinians? since they are going to be the winnowing state? are people interested in this race? guest: absolutely. south carolina republicans take so much pride in the fact that they pick the president. that is what they like to say. the winner of the republican nomination has to win south carolina in every election cycle since 1980. so they see that as a great responsibility of theirs. the old saying is that iowa

narrows the field, new hampshire sets the table, and south carolina closes the deal. they take a lot of pride in that and you'll probably see a high level of interest. the summer and fall, the story is that nothing is going on. that would taint of what here. -- that will change a lot. but you will see a lot of voters wake up and they can take their focus on politics and they have 10 days to figure out who they will vote for. host: anything to watch over the next 10 days that might be a bellwether? guest: representative tim scott, who he endorses. he is the last holdout of the major endorsers here in south carolina. governor haley has already endorsed governor romney. you have a lot of other republicans in the state, mostly jim demintand others, saying that they will not

endorse. they're going to sit on the sidelines and this one. but tim scott has held a series of town hall meetings that have been broadcast throughout the state and the country. he has really been involved in the primary process and he has the ability, especially in the low country, where those votes are very critical for mitt romney and huntsman, he can do a swing for some candidates. i will keep an eye on who he endorses. host: your former governor mark sanford, is he involved in this or is he sitting it out? guest: i have not heard anything from him or about him in this whole process. he reemerged last year as a commentator for fox news and they brought him out a couple of times, but i have not heard much from him. i do not think he will be that involved. host: thank you for giving us a preview of the campaign which begins in earnest tomorrow. a do-or-die state for a number of these competitors in the

republican primary. adam beam, a reporter for the state newspaper in columbia, thank you. >> coming up, we will hear from the winner of tonight's in new hampshire gop primary, mitt romney. all but the second place finisher, congressman ron paul. then jon huntsman, who finished third. later, former pennsylvania senator rick santorum. >> we would get an update and analysis on the new hampshire's primary result on tomorrow's w j p k rich lowry of the national journal joins us. we will also talk to tavis smiley and cornell west. then james bennet on a recent story on manufacturing jobs.

later, president obama will attend odd jobs forum. it will include cabinet secretaries and highlight u.s. companies that decided to reopen manufacturing plants that had been operating overseas. live coverage begins at 1215 eastern. now we will hear from the winner of the new hampshire primary, mitt romney. he spoke to reporters at southern manhattan university -- southern manchester university in new hampshire. [cheers and applause] >> oh. well. >> there are so many friends here. what a great night this is.

thank you, new hampshire. [applause] this could not have happened without the help lot of people. them. special thanks to senator kelly ayotte, governor john sununu -- i don't know where he went. senator judd gregg, congressman charlie bass. they have spoken for us and they have fought for us across the state. thank you also, mayor. the many state legislators who have been tireless workers on our behalf. one state senator deserves special mention. jeb bradley is out there somewhere. he has fired up audiences

everywhere we go. thanks to ray burton, and others who have been there for us from the very beginning. we are grateful to the people who lead our campaign in new hampshire. jim merrill. jason mcbride, and a special thanks to the thousands of volunteers who have devoted countless hours to our calls. finally, we want to thank the people of new hampshire. [applause] they are the active part of this democratic process. the ones we met by knocking on doors, visiting towns and cities throughout this great state, and who turned out to meet us at one of our many events. now, guess what i want to do?

i want to introduce the man who next president of the united states, mitt romney. [cheers and applause] free"eger's "born playing] [chanting mitt] >> thank you. thank you. thank you, new hampshire. tonight, we made history. [cheers and applause] [laughter]

this state has always been a very special place for our family. we made a home here and filled it with great memories of our children and grandchildren. the granite state moment we just enjoy it is one i will always remember. i have my five sons behind me and my daughters and a law and grand kids behind me. it is great to have family here. tonight we celebrate, tomorrow we go back to work. [applause] we do remember when barack obama came to new hampshire four years ago, he promised to bring people together. he promised to change the broken system in washington. he promised to improve our nation. those were the days of lofty promises made by a political candidate. now we're dealing with a failed president. the last three years have not offered much hope. the middle class has been crushed.

nearly 24 million of our fellow americans are still out of work. struggling to find work or have stopped looking. the median income has dropped 10% in the last four years, and soldiers returning home from the front line are waiting now in unemployment lines. our debt is too high and opportunities are too few. and this president wakes up every morning and looks across america and is proud to announce, it could be worse. it could be worse? that's not what it means to be an american. it could be worse. of course not. what defines us as americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better and it will be better. [cheers and applause] [chanting mitt]

that conviction guides our campaign. it has rallied millions of americans in every corner of this country to our cause. over the last six months, i have listened to anxious voices in town halls and town meetings, visited with students and soldiers, in breakrooms and living rooms. i've heard stories of families getting by on less, of carefully planned retirements now replaced with jobs at minimum wage. but even now amidst the worst recovery since the great depression, i rarely heard any speech of hopelessness. americans know that our future is brighter and better than these troubled times. [applause] we still believe -- we still believe in the hope, promise,

and the dream of america. we still believe in that shining city on the hill. we know that the future of this country is better than 8% unemployment or 9% unemployment. it is better than $15 trillion in debt. it is better than the misguided promises and broken policies of the last three years and the broken promises of one man. -- the failed leadership of one man. the president has run out of ideas. now he is running out of excuses. [cheers and applause] and tonight -- [chanting mitt] and tonight, tonight we are asking the good people of south carolina to join the citizens of new hampshire and make 2012 the year he runs out of time.

president obama wants to put free enterprise on trial. and in the last few days, we have seen some desperate republicans joined forces with him. [booing] this is such a mistake for our party and for our nation. the country already has a leader who divides us with a bitter politics of envy. we have to offer an alternative vision. i stand ready to lead us down a different path where we are lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by our resentment of success. in difficult times, we cannot

abandon the core values that define us as a unique nation. we are one nation under god. made no mistake, in this campaign i will offer the american ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense, and we're going to win with that message. but you know that our campaign is about more than replacing the president. it is about saving the soul of america. this election is a choice between two very different destinies. president obama wants to fundamentally transform america. we want to restore america to the founding principles that made this country great. he wants to turn america into a european-style social welfare state. we want to ensure that we

remain a free and prosperous land of opportunity. this president takes his inspiration from the capitals of your. -- of europe. we look to the cities and towns across america for our inspiration. the president puts his face and government. -- his faith in government. we put our faith in the american people. [cheers and applause] this president is making the federal government bigger and bloated. i will make it simpler, smarter, and smaller. he raised the national debt. i will cut, cap, and balance the federal budget.

he has enacted -- [chanting mitt] this president has enacted jobs killing regulation. i will eliminate them. he lost our aaa credit rating. i will restore it. he passed obamacare. i will repeal it. and when -- and when it comes to the economy, my highest priority as president will be worrying about your job, not about saving my own. now internationally, president obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. he believes america's role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. i think a strong america must and will lead the future.

he does not see the need for overwhelming military superiority. i will insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it. he criticizes our friends like israel. i will always stand with our friends. and he apologizes for america, and i will never apologize for the greatest nation in the history of the earth. our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the constitution of the

united states. now the path i lay out is not one paved with ever-increasing government checks, and cradle to grave assurances that government will always be the solution. if this election is a bidding war for those it can promise the most benefit, then i am not your president. you already have that president. if you want to make this election about restoring american greatness, then i hope you'll join us. if you believe the disappointment of the last few years are a detour, not a destiny, then i am asking for your vote. i am asking each of you to remember how special it is to be an american. i want you to remember what it was like to be helpful and excited about the future, not to dread each new headline. i want you to remember when you spend more time dreaming about where you send your kids to college than worrying about how to make it to the next paycheck. i want you to remember when our

-- when you were not afraid to look at your retirement savings or the price at the pump. i want you to remember when power -- our white house reflected the best of who we are, not the worst of what europe has become. that america is still out there. we still believe in that america. we still believe -- we believe, we believe. we still believe in the america that is a land of opportunity and a beacon of freedom. we believe in the america that challenges each of us to be better and bigger than ourselves paying this election, let's go on to fight for the america we love, because we

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>> now we will hear from congressman ron paul to finish second in the new hampshire primary. he spoke to reporters in manchester. -- supporters and manchester. ♪ >> president paul! president paul! president paul! president paul! >> thank you very much. i really do not have to introduce my wife. i think you know my wife, carol. we have a few other members of the family here.

we have our daughter-in-law, peggy. we have lisa -- linda, linda. we have another member of the families on the staff, but he is technically in the family, he is a grand son-in-law. it is a delight, and jim, senator forsythe, thank you for your support along with andy, your co-sponsorship, i appreciate all that. i do want to mention three names of people who did organization. jerry, i do not know if he is here. probably still making phone calls or something. and bob goodman, a tremendous amount of work here. and george bryan, he was fantastic.

there was one other acknowledgement i wanted to make. i wanted to thank the "union leader" for not endorsing me. [cheers and applause] i called governor romney a short while ago before he gave his talk and congratulated him because he had a clear-cut victory. but we are nibbling at his heels. but there was another victory tonight. he had a victory, but we have had a victory for the cause of liberty . [applause] there is no doubt that this whole effort that we're involved in will not go unnoticed, let me tell you.

i think the intellectual revolution going on now to restore liberty in this country is well on its way and there is no way they are going to stop the momentum that we have started. [applause] and that is the victory that you have brought about, because you have been the ones that have done the work. there are a lot of people here, but the ones across the country, the donors and the excitement on the campuses, it just unbelievable. if we do not always get the coverage or the interest shown on what is going on, because if they did, they would not ignore some much of what we're doing. i find it sort of fascinating when they finally get around and these are different people, it could be in the media or our opponents, but i have to chuckle when they describe you and me as being dangerous.

[applause] that is one thing they're telling the truth, because we are dangerous to the status quo of this country. [cheers and applause] >> president paul! president paul! president paul! president paul! >> and we will remain a danger to the federal reserve system as well. >> end the fed! end the fed! >> that's right -- end the fed! >> end the fed! end the fed! end the fed! >> you know, in studying

monetary history from the beginning our history and throughout history, monetary policy on periodic occasions will become the dominant issue. we have emphasized that and it has become an important issue. just think, this is the first presidential campaign that the subjectever came up since the federal reserve was started. it will remain a dominant issue, there is no way they will put it to bed because they have destroyed our money, it is worldwide, there is a financial crisis going on, and it is only sound money and personal liberty that can solve the crisis that we have today. one reason that i talk about the monetary system so much, it was a sneaky deceitful way to pay the bills. an honest government that wants to be a big spending government would tax the people, and then

the people would know what they were doing. if we had to pay taxes for everything that they do, the people would rise up and stop it. so then they started borrowing money a lot, and people did not notice that quite as much, because they passed that on. and then they resorted to the printing of the money and that is why the federal reserve was established, to take care of the powerful interests, the military-industrial complex, the bank system, and deficit financing. a couple of reasons they have deficit financing. sometimes there are conservatives that want deficit financing and sometimes there are liberals who want deficit financing, and they have resorted to this. of course this is why we are facing this crisis today. but it also serves those interests who like to think that we have this responsibility -- they claim it is a moral responsibility to take our young people, put them into the military, and send them hither and yon around the world police

in the world and using up the money. [booing] just as we have been able to bring to the forefront the most important issue of that funny money, the fiat money and the federal reserve, we brought it to the forefront. others have not openly talked about it and they do nothing about it. there is a liberty movement that is saying to the country and to the world, we have had enough of sending our kids and our money around the world to be the policeman of the world. it is time to bring them home. [applause] >> bring them home! bring them home! bring them home.

bring them home. bring them home. >> the one thing is we know that they will come home. my goal and our goal has always been to bring them home in a deliberate fashion to avoid major economic crisis by destroying our economy by spending so much overseas. in the last 10 years, the wars going on have added $4 trillion of debt. i do not think we have been one bit more safe for it. i think we have been less safe because of all the money we have spent overseas. this is the issue now. it is an issue that i think it's crucial. jim mentioned in the introduction that so often they say that if we tell people that we think we should spend less in the military, "oh, that means you want to cut defense." no, if you cut the military industrial complex, you cut war profiteering but you do not take one penny out of national defence.

and besides, we are flat out broke. fortunately we did not have to fight the soviets. the soviets brought themselves down for economic reasons. do you know that they were so foolish and thought themselves so boldthat they could pursue their world empire and invade afghanistan? but we will come home, but if we do it now, calmly and deliberately, we can save our economy here at home. because there are a lot of people suffering here at home. you have to stop inflation. that is what destroys the middle class and transfers the wealth from the poor and the middle class to the wealthy. that is why the wealthy got their bailouts and the middle class shrunk and they lost their jobs in their houses. -- and they thought -- and they lost their houses. so this is what we have to do.

we have to cut the spending. this is why i have made a token suggestion in the first year of office, we would cut at least $1 trillion from the budget. [applause] now the one thing -- the talk here in washington is pure talk because there's nobody suggesting -- the other candidates are not talking about real cuts. they are talking about cutting proposed increases out in 10 years. they say it will cut $1 trillion. yes over 10 years, $100 billion every year. our national debt is going up $100 billion every month and they claim that is cutting and they are yelling and screaming, we cannot cut. we cannot cut. we have to cut. we have to live within our means if we want to be able to at least take care of the people who have been made to be so dependent on the government. i mean, we ought to work our way out. if we did this and cut the overseas spending, at least we might be able to allow the

social security beneficiaries to get their checks and medical care provided. but if we continue to do what we're doing, the results are that the dollar is destroyed and the whole thing comes apart and it is going to be a worldwide phenomenon. already social security beneficiaries are suffering a lot. their income is shrinking because the value of the dollar is going down. they are getting their checks cut. you have to think about cutting and stopping inflation and ask once again as our founders did, what should the role of government be in a free society? the role should be very simple -- the protection of liberty. >> ron paul revolution.

bring us back our constitution! >> wonderful, wonderful. no, the constitution was written for a very precise manner. it was not designed to restrain the individual. not to restrain you. it was to protect your liberties and to restrain the federal government. our liberty has to be reemphasized because we have been careless of the last 100 years. we have taken liberty and chopped it up into pieces. to some people, liberty has to do with personal habits, which i agree. other people think liberty is about how to spend your money and they fight about when to do what. i think what we need to do is make this emphasis -- liberty means you have a right in your privacy and the way you want to live your life as long as you do not hurt people and you have the right tokeep and spend your money as you want to.

freedom is a wonderful idea. that is why i get so excited and i really get excited when i see young people saying it. it really is a wonderful idea. freedom is popular, don't you know that? freedom brings people together. i think it is magnificent, the crowds that have come out of the weeks and months that have been very diverse. it should be. because some people want their freedom to practice their religion one way, and maybe another way, some might not even want to practice it at all. but freedom, if you understand it, you should all fight for freedom because you want to exert your freedom the same way that you want. the same with economic freedom. it should bring people together. i think this is one reason people wonder about how you put together coalitions, how are you going to compromise and give up some of your beliefs in order to get something passed. you do not have to compromise. you have to emphasize the coalition that people want

their freedoms for different reasons and bring them together. americas been the greatest country ever, the most prosperous country ever, the largest middle-class ever. it is not that way today. our middle class is shrinking, the country is getting poorer, the wealth is based on debt, the few that really holds the debt shift it due to the regulations to control our government. we have had too many people too long in the last 100 years thinking that it was beneficial to have high paid lobbyists to get them to find out what they can get from the government, rather than us petitioning our government in a proper manner, petitioning our government and demanding our freedoms back again. a lot of times they give us

trouble and they say, freedom, you people are just too selfis. all you want to do is have your freedom. [laughter] they argure that is the case. the bleeding hearts, i understand them and i recognize them and i think most of them are well intended. it does not work is the problem. all the good intentions of saying we're going to give everybody a free house and loans and then they can borrow against the equity, look what happened. it was a bubble, it burst, and they lost their homes. humanitarian instincts are there across the board. if you are a true humanitarian, you have to fight and argue the case for free markets, sound money, property rights, contract rights, no use of force, and a sensible foreign policy so that we do not waste our resources. [applause]

we are well on our way. we are well on our way. people ask me what i expect five years or 10 years ago. i had no idea. i always assumed the best i could do was set a record. i did not know you were out there. [applause] it is no longer that irate minorities stirring up the troops. now the irate minority, so tireless you have been, it is growing by leaps and bounds. it will continue to grow by leaps and bounds. and we will restore freedom to this country. thank you very much. thank you. >> president paul! president paul! president paul! president paul!

president paul! president paul! president paul! president paul! [cheers and applause] ♪ >> next we will hear jon huntsman talk to supporters in manchester. he finished third in the new hampshire primary. ♪

>> ladies and gentlemen, i think we are in the hunt. [applause] thank you ladies and gentlemen here and i would say third place is a ticket to ride, ladies and gentlemen. hello south carolina. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, we are here tonight because of you we have got the greatest of volunteers and greatest organizers the state has ever seen. give yourself a hand. [applause] we have proved a point that this state once its candidates

to earn it the old-fashioned way. that is on the ground thehandshake by handshake, conversation by conversation, a vote by vote, we got it done ladies and gentlemen. [applause] do you know what else we got done during this great seven months where we have had at least 170 public events in this great state? 170 public event and that no one even came close. we had conversations about the importance of putting this country first, ladies and gentlemen. [chanting "country first"] because the people of this

great nation, the greatest nation that ever was, they are tired of being divided. they want leadership that will tell us the first and foremost we need to come together as americans to even solve our problems. [applause] we need a president, ladies and gentlemen, that will stand up and say we have an economic deficit -- is called $15 trillion in debt. this is not a debt problem, it is a national security problem. we will not leave it to the next generation of americans. i want to stand up and i want to square with the american people about this. afghanistan is not our nation's future. iran is not this nation's future.

our nation's future is how prepared we are to rise up and had on the challenges in the 21st century. do you know what i am talking about? and this is about economics. this is about education and this is going to play out over the pacific ocean with countries that i have lived in before. all i can tell you tonight without any hint of hyperbole folks, if we do not get our act together at home we will see the end of the american century by 2015. we will not let that happen, will we? ladies and gentlemen, we also have been able to get our message out to the people of this great state about a second deficit that we have. it is not a economic deficit but it is just as corrosive. it is called a trusted deficit.

the people of the greatest nation that ever was, the united states of america, no longer trust their institutions of power. they no longer trust their elected officials. i say how did we get to the spot? we are too good of people to be in this hall. we are the most problem- solving, can-do optimistic people on earth and we are going to get out there and address the trust deficit. it is going to start with congress. everybody knows that congress needs term limits. [cheers and applause] everybody knows we have to close

the revolving door that allows members of congress to file out to become lobbyists trading in on their insider information. and we wonder why there is cynicism toward congress? no trust. there is no trust abroad. we will pick that -- we will fix that. i will stand up in front of the american people and i will say we have something to show for our candidates years in the war of terror. something to show for the american people that is important. we have run the caliban from power. we have dismantled al qaeda. osama bin laden is no longer around. we have had three elections. we have strength and society and help to the military and the police. we have done what this nation can do. it is time to bring the troops home from afghanistan. [applause] we need it trust and use back into this nation. we need a president that will

stand up and say it is time for us to come together. this nation, the greatest nation on earth, has every attribute a nation would never want for success. that is why we are going to succeed as we go forward. all we need is a little bit of leadership and a plan. i saw this nation from 10,000 miles away -- you hear me? 10,000 miles away. when you see this nation from abroad, you tend to see it in bold colors. the you know what i saw living in china? i saw a nation with the greatest people on earth. a nation that is down for the moment and down temporarily. a nation that is about to rise up again because we have every attribute a nation would ever want to succeed. we have stability. we have rule of law. we have the longest surviving constitution and the world.

we even have private property rights right here in new hampshire. we have the greatest colleges and universities on earth and people flocked here to attend them. we have the most creative entrepreneur real people and they are sitting on their hands because there is no confidence about the direction or leadership of this nation. i say that is an engine of growth that we are going to read fire. --refire. we have the greatest and most courageous armed forces this nation has ever seen. [cheers and applause] i will be darned if we are going to allow the men and women to come from the theatres of combat to the unemployment lines. that is not going to happen. those men and women who have worn the uniform of the unites

states of america will come hoem to dignity and admiration. they will come home to jobs and opportunity as well. they are going to do the same thing for this nation that the greatest generation did so many decades ago. they rebuilt this nation and pulled it up by their bootstraps. there is another for this generation coming up. you know who they are. they will do what earlier generations did. they will help us rebuild this generation rebuild in this nation. it will make it the best they can be. ladies and gentlemen, i love the state.

this state -- and this state we have worked hard and diligently. we have pounded the pavement and shaking hands. we have had conversations and one people over person by person. this is the old way to get politics done in new hampshire. my confidence in the system is reborn. they just turn out at these town hall meetings. nobody forces that are tells them they have to do it. it is because they believe in a better tomorrow for the united states of america. [applause] thank you very much. they turned out to the town hall meetings and it turned out to the house parties and hear from the candidates. the assimilate and the date digested all and they render a judgment. here we sit tonight with a ticket to ride and to move on. here we go to south carolina.

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>> now we would hear from rick santorum. he spoke with voters one week after the iowa caucus.

>> thank you. thank you very much. thank you very much. thank you to all of the folks up here. thank you very much for everything he have done here. we came up here just about 10 days ago. after iowa the most recent poll was three%. where we started, that is what we wanted to do. we wanted to respect the process. we wanted to respect the fact that we would campaign in every single state, states that were good for it and some that may be a little tougher. we knewyou run in a state like

new hampshire that had a lot of f time and money, we knew it would be tough. the message we have of going out and be leaving in the american people -- believing that we need to have opportunities not just for some in america, we need somebody that will go out and speak for all americans to be able to have the opportunity to rise in society. we took that message to new hampshire. we talk about manufacturing plants and what we would do to grow the economy. we took it to talk about faith and family as the basis and bedrock of society. [applause] and buy your work and the grass roots effort and the crowds that we have had, we go to this campaign here in new hampshire just a very short period of time. we did not spend a lot of money, but we put a lot of effort into this. we put our message out there. we came were the campaign was.

we delivered a message not just for new hampshire, but we delivered a message for america that we have a campaign here -- [applause] we have a campaign that has a message and a messenger that can deliver what we need. first and foremost, that is to defeat barack obama. [applause] the message as i mentioned in iowa from the grandson of a coal miner. somebody who believed deeply that the responsibility that he had as someone who risked his life for a sovereign, taking when he served in the austrian army during world war one.

he fought on the russian front. if it was not for the aid of a friend calling from a foxhole and pulling my would grandfather back into that foxhole, i would not be here today. he fought for somebody who did not care about him. he came to america because he wanted to make sure that his children would be in a free country and his grandchildren would be in a free country. ladies and gentlemen, that is our charge and that is what is at stake in america today. [applause]

let me assure you, he was not deterred by some temporary setbacks. he believed in the greatness of this country and he believed in the freedom of opportunity that this country presented. we are going to go on to south carolina. [applause] for those who like to think that somehow or another that this risk could be over and one or two states, states that have been, well, the backyard and home of a certain candidate -- who by the way i want to congratulate mitt romney for a great victory tonight. [applause] he worked hard in the state and he invested in the state. the people of new hampshire gave

him a very hard earned factory. i spoke with governor mitt romney and congratulated him on that when the and said i am looking forward to engage in on the subject matter of issues. i am talking about records and how we are going to put the best foot forward. i am talking about records and the way to put the best foot forward to deliver a message to the american people that can unitas. we have an opportunity in this race. we have an opportunity to be the true conservative who can go out and do what is necessary not just to win this race. we can win this race. [applause] to be the conservative who understands that at the

foundation of our country are institutions that are crucial for us to be successful nation, families that are bonded together at the foundation that instill for two and phase to build strong communities. that is the message along with a government that understands that we have to create a playing field for all americans to be able to be successful in this country. we have a message that can appeal not just in south carolina but across this nation and in particular in the states that are necessary for us to win this election, the states that are the swing states, it the states that have been successful. we're not only going to deliver the basic structure and

foundation of our country being safe and family, but we're going to do so understanding that good faith in the american people we can not only wipe out of this deficit, we can not only have a strong america that stands up for the values that i just talked about but we can do so in a huge victory that will rally this country to take on the great challenges. on to south carolina. thank you and god bless. ♪ ♪

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>> the state in new hampshire was so warm and generous to us. everywhere we went it was remarkable how many people were positive and actively supportive and helpful. i am delighted to have this chance and to learn more about the concerns. i am thankful to everyone here that does been helpful, especially speaker o'brien who did such a great, great job. one of the great virtues of running is that everywhere you go you learn something. you pick up a better understanding of america. i have to say that the leadership that speaker o'brien and the house showed in developing a new approach that i hope will become adopted

everywhere in america, where they actually had the ways and means committee report first. it indicated how much money they would have a. they then actually adopted a budget to fix their income -- to fit their income. it is the opposite of every other state in the country. the result was a very courageous and a very serious effort in which they cut 11% out of spending which is a remarkable achievement. in washington it would begin to move us back here this a step to of a long process. you learn certain things.

let me put in context where we are. we have an opportunity to unify the country around a message of jobs, economic growth, and very dramatic programs. the opportunity is to reach out to everybody of every background who would rather have paychecks than food stamps to convince them that what ronald way again did not go crazy millions of new jobs, what we did when i was speaker in 1990's in creating millions of new jobs, it can be done again. this campaign is going to go on to south carolina.

we're going to offer the american people something very different. but we're going to offer them an opportunity to participate in very dramatic, very fundamental change in washington, d.c. we're going to prove that i both understand the principles and i understand the practice. i learned a lot of those principles from ronald reagan and margaret thatcher. i got to practice them as a junior college and working with ronald reagan. i got to practice as a speaker working with bill clinton. i want to suggest to you when ronald reagan was president, we have to find a way to get votes to the house despite the fact that o'neill was speaker. when i was speaker, we had a way to the bill signed a despite the fact that bill clinton was president. i believe if we had a republican house, a republican senate, and they become rich presidency, it would be amazing -- and a gingrich presidency, it would be amazing how much we could get done.

[applause] we're going to take to south carolina tonight and kick off tomorrow morning a campaign for jobs and economic growth, a campaign for a balanced budget, a campaign for returning power to the states to the 10th amendment, a campaign for a strong national security, a campaign for a stable, solid social security program both for people now on it and for the young people who are here who deserve a chance in their lifetime to have an even better program with a greater return. if we are smart, we can do better things for people. how do we raise taxes and cut spending in way that causes you

paying on the spending sign and causes you paint on the tax side is exactly backward. i was really struck. this is part of learning. we have a debate. we were asked a question about the heating assistance program. it was praised in the washington way. are you going to run a bigger deficits the canal or people or are you going to cut people off? nobody on the panel asked the question seemed to consider an alternative. what if we simply went out and developed american oil and gas, brought down the cost of heating oil and did not need to help people because the price came down? that idea of doing more and doing a better does not exist in the washington lexicon. it makes it hard because it is

so strange. what if you were just innovative? what did you have new approaches? what if he did americans -- what if you did everything americans have always done? the free enterprise system that attracted people from people from henry ford to thomas edison to bill gates to steve jobs, that model but maximizing the development of new approaches, new energy, new opportunities, new technologies, has raised the standard of living across the planet more than any other system in the world. you have been wonderful to us here. i am asking each of you not to slow down. not the next couple of days, and make a list of every person you know in south carolina and every person you know in florida. those are the next great

contest. as the choice becomes clear, as people understand that there is a bold break a conservative approach of lower taxes, less regulation, more american energy, a sound dollar, and being in favor of creating jobs, the opposite of the obama programs of higher taxes, more regulation, more american energy, and attacking people would create jobs, look at those two models. we can reach out and create a majority that will shock the country and a majority that will put this back on the right track. it is doable. it is a daunting challenge. consider the alternative. if we do not go the extra mile and we do not offer a vision powerful enough to unify americans and we continue down the road that obama has as often, what the judges have us

on, more years of decay, more years of inadequacy, more years of falling behind, more years of growing weakness. that is the alternative. i believe it will take someone that is capable of debating barack obama face-to-face, and delivering the conservative message, winning the argument, in order to overcome his billion dollar machine. with your help, as your spokesperson representing your values on behalf of our children, our grandchildren, and our country, i will do everything i can to win the opportunity to represent you in this fall in debating in defeating barack obama. thank you. got bless you.

>> you have more political coverage tomorrow. president obama will take his reelection campaign to his home

town. he will be speaking at a form at the university of illinois at chicago campus. that is at 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. mr. romney will campaign in colombia, south carolina. >> joe biden spoke to voters. he was joined by a debbie wasserman schulz. this is about 30 minutes. >> hello, manchester.

>> i am thrilled to be joined by a few hundred of my closest friends. i also want to give a special welcome to the thousands of volunteers joining us across the stage. i want to thank so many of you for your time and energy, and we want to say how appreciative we are. we are going to be joined in a couple minutes by joe biden, but now it is my honor to present the chairman of the democratic committee. >> thank you so much. thank you for the honorary designation. some of you know i have a family home in newbury and spend a lot of time here, so this is my second favorite place in the world, and it has really been

wonderful being here. for those of you who have attended house parties, we really know as mitt romney closes of his shop and packs of to go to south carolina and puts new hampshire in his rearview mirror, we are going to be making sure we operates the most robust and grass-roots presidential campaign that has ever been seen, and that is thanks to all of you. i have been talking about the dramatic contrast between mitt romney and the direction he believes in this country should go and making sure the wind is kept of the back of the most fortunate americans. someone who said he enjoys firing people.

he understands the plight of people who have lost their jobs because there have been times he has wherein he would get a pink slip. i think his only familiarity with pink slips is because he has given out so many of them. if there is anybody who should do well in this state, it is mitt romney. it is practically his home state. we can see the lack of enthusiasm, because when you do not have any conviction, when you do not stand for anything just to get elected, that is not the kind of confidence of voters want to see. what we know of of else -- above all else as we are going to work every day to make sure we talk about barack obama's

incredible accomplishments, the tax breaks he is able to provide to 95% of americans and 22 straight months of job growth in the private sector, and it is my privilege to introduce someone who is very special to you, but she is very special to me because we know her eyes are champion outfielder. as your united states senator, and jean chretien -- shaheen. >> thank you, everybody. [applause] i like this. this is good. get fired up. c'mon.

isn't it great to have our wonderful chairwoman hear with us in new hampshire? debbie wasserman shultz is here not only to celebrate today, but to get us started on the next step of all long journey to reelect a rocker obama come november -- to reelect a rocker obama come november. some of you may wonder what happened to my arm. i got this arm wrestling mitch mcconnell. i want to thank all of you who have worked so hard over the last weeks and months. this is really a dry run for what we need to do nine months

from now, so thank you to all of these activists who are here, for all of the party's supporters, to our state's share, and to everyone who has worked so hard. it is just the beginning, and we have a lot more to do. of course my husband is here, too. he is starting to work already. [applause] you may have noticed there is also a republican primary going on today. i know we are watching who is going to win this republican primary, a reality is it does not matter of holocaust -- does not matter a whole lot, because we know they are all different shades of the same color, and that color is scary.

we have candidates who want to send our troops back to iraq. we have a candidate who believes we should outlaw contraceptives and birth control, and most of those candidates on the republican side and not supported the budget that would end medicare and turn it into a voucher program, and let's talk about jobs, because we all know what we need to do in new hampshire and across this country is to put back to work those people who are unemployed. we need to grow this country, and there is a huge difference between the vision barack obama has for growing jobs in this country, and the vision every one of those republican nominees have that one to support policies that support the top 1%.

barack obama knows we need to help the middle class, and that is the backbone of our country, and we need to make sure people can get by to work. i like to talk about the auto industry. [applause] the fact is this president believed it was important to help the auto industry, so now we have are robust auto industry, and here in new hampshire we have over 20,000 jobs that are still here because we held out of their industry, and we are making cars and we do we help -- because we helped the auto industry, and we are making cars again. we have 3.1 million jobs that have been created.

that is very different from january of 2009 when we were losing 750,000 jobs the month. it does not matter who wins the republican nomination. they are going back to the policies of the bush administration we have been fighting for the last three years to get us out of. we know barack obama is the person to do this. we have got to re-elect him, and we have to do everything we can for the next nine months to make sure we return him to the white house. [applause] one of the people who is going to help make out happened is our friend from new hampshire, the man from scranton, pennsylvania. we call him at one of our own, vice president joe biden. we are about to get him on video, and with him is the national field director for the campaign, so mr. vice president, we are glad to have you in new hampshire.

[applause] >> it is my pleasure to be moderating the event tonight, and without further ado i would like to turn it over to the man who fights for you every single day, the vice-president of the united states, joe biden. >> my son was in iraq for a year. i understand the miscommunication, so i apologize if the connection is not what you expect. when the president and i came into office, we inherited a mess of historic proportions. our economy was failing people,

and the country was in trouble. we did what we had to do, and we faced an absolutely unified opposition been set against every single thing we tried to do. every initiative and we passed was passed without a single republican vote, and in the process, we stabilize the financial system. we saved over 3 million jobs. we passed historic health care reform. you will see the results. 22 straight months of private sector job growth, and it is all happening with virtually no republican support, and there is something else we inherited. and we inherited a broken and no bargain.

the deal our parents did not have to face. that was the basic deal, which is that middle-class folks got to share in the benefits they helped produce in this country. that was broken during the bush years, and we were determined to fix it. they did not understand that. mitt romney has no idea of the it is broken. how else could they say the the way to fix the foreclosure crisis is just by letting it all go to the bottom? foreclosure is the only way to clean things out. how else are you going to say republicans are the opportunity party? opportunity by providing incredible tax cuts to the wealthy and where they are helping the kids get to college

or anything else, he characterized as the party of entitlements. people who work hard are entitled to an equal shot. the republican party stands for something different from your father's republican party. it is not only mitt romney, but all the other guys. this is not what the president is about. it is not what are rock -- what barack is about. the grand bargain that has allowed the middle class to prosper in the last century have been basically ignored by these guys, and we have one overarching commitment to give the middle-class a fighting chance to maintain their independence, to give them a fighting chance to reach the

aspirations they have, a fighting chance to live in a decent neighborhood. that is what this is about. these guys will spend hundreds of millions of dollars. we have something more powerful. we have all of you and millions of people like you who are willing to go door-to-door, talk to their neighbors, and make their case. the republican party took over congress in 2010, and some of the governors who took over, i really believe these guys have opened the eyes of the american people to what this republican party stands for.

we saw that in ohio with a republican who tried to eliminate public programs. you see it in stark relief for republicans in congress. they were fighting against tax cut for middle income people. the blunders were off, and we have two important things. maybe most important, the republican party is no longer trying to hide the ball anymore. they are not talking about medicare and social security and about how they care for opportunities for everyone. these guys are about saying what they are for.

they want to about to rise medicare and cut education. they want to eliminate the ability to help middle-class kids get to college. now that we brought back the troops and the president kept his commitment, they want to send them back. it is not about barack obama or joe biden. it is about decent middle-class people and giving americans a fighting chance. i am happy to take questions if you have time. >> thank you so much for taking time to talk to us. we are going to start in nashua with monica. are you with us? >> it is an honor to be able to

ask a question to night. you and your president keeping your commitment to end the war in iraq. what is your mission for the second term? >> thank you. it was a commitment we made and both felt strongly, and i think a lot of people doubted it was going to be done. when we came into office, we inherited two wars, one in iraq and afghanistan, and we face a surge in out kinda -- in al qaeda. we lost the respect of a lot of our friends, so the president set about ending the war in iraq and putting afghanistan on our responsible course where we will turn over full responsibility for the security of the country to the afghanis by the end of 2014.

the president has gone out of the way with the incredible hulk of some of the brave men and women out there, -- the incredible help of some of the brave men and women out there, and they have decimated now kinda -- estimated about kinda -- al qaeda. the president led the efforts to find and eliminate osama bin laden. in almost one fell swoop, and now with the election of a rock obama, we regain our stand -- of barack obama, we regain our standing because not only should they respect our power, but they should respect the power of our ideas. look at what we have done. we have been able to generate

new partnerships around the world. [no audio] here is one example. what did we do? we used our incredibly advanced technology. we organized not only the europeans. we also organize the arab states. with little money, no truth of the ground, and not a single loss of american life -- no boots on the ground, and not a single loss of american life. we need to focus on soft power.

our power lies in being able to lead the rest of the world in dealing with no food shortage and dealing with hiv and uniting the world for a common purpose, so i believe barack obama has done more in three years and then all the presidents i served in eight years in enhancing our security, restoring our leadership, and putting us in a position where the next 10 years are not going to be like a last stand. -- like last ten. >> thank you for joining us. we are going to take another question. we are going to go to portsmouth, where we have cristina. >> i am here. hi, mr. vice president. i know you and the president have been working really hard for middle-class families, and

as we are making these phone calls for voters, i wonder how we respond to people who are struggling on a day-to-day basis, even with the economy improving, how we respond as they make their decisions for november? >> the economy is improving. people are going to steer a the ceiling wondering if they will be in that house. my grandpa used to say, when we got in from a suburb, when he got out of work is an economic slowdown, and when you are out of work, it is a depression. they have been stripped not only of their ability to make a living, but they have been

stripped of their dignity. my dad used to say a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. it is about your dignity. it is about your sense of self, and these guys do not get it. i was raised in the house where when there was a recession in our household, sitting around our dining room table, everyone knew someone around the table was going to lose their jobs. someone was going to lose their job, and raising a family like that, you understand the urgency of what we are talking about. we need to restore this bargain. i could say two more things. number one, the american people have never failed in their country.

all barack and i are trying to do is get them on a level playing field, give them a shot. it is not enough that we get back the jobs lost in the 20th- century. we have to create new areas of employment to compete in the 21st century for a good paying jobs. we are not looking to have a race to the bottom like some of my republican friends think were you have to pay minimum wage, and that is fine.

we are in the business of providing decent jobs, and all of the season jobs require -- [no audio] we have to invest in infrastructure. if i took you to china or beijing [no audio] and took the blindfold off and said, where are you, you would think it was three u.s. airports. the rest of the world has moved ahead of us. that will attract businesses. it will create good paying jobs, not just laying down concrete and asphalt. engineers to come up with a plan. the second thing we have to do

is invest. we have the greatest universities in the world. again we have the most innovative people in the world, and we have the ability to marshal capital for new ideas, but in every previous generation, the government has had a vision about how to go ahead and do that, so they have invested in renewable energy. they have invested in the ideas of the future, and then a private business takes over.

the part that bothers me about this republican party is that it is different than existed 20 years ago. the thing that bothers me is that they're not bad folks. they have a totally different sense of what the country is about. i remember when i was a senior in high school. -plan on saying this but i was a senior in high school. i was trying to get to school. my dad ran an automobile agency. he did not own and, he was the manager. [unintelligible] my dad said i could get down and get a new car. i take my girlfriend to the dance. i was a senior taking my

girlfriend to the junior prom. i said, where it is data? -- mary, where is dad? this is a true story. she said he is out on the side lot. i just come from a baseball game. i said hey, my dad was pacing. he was an honorable and proud man. he looked like something awful had happened. he said i am sorry, i am so sorry. i thought what happened? he said, i went to the bank to bar the money to the you it. -- to borrow the money to get to the car. they will not lend me the money. i do not know what i'm going to do. it is not just about the kid who does not get there. it is about the parent who is stripped of their dignity. the idea that these guys are providing tax incentives to people, college assistance. loan forgiveness? where did they come from?

where were they raised? i conclude by saying this is more than just another election. these are not immoral bad guys. these guys have a fundamentally different view of this country and what will make a great. i guess it was a congresswoman who said i like firing people. -- it was a congressman who said -- i guess it was romney who said "i like firing people." it is probably out of context when he so that, -- when he said that, but what was not out of context as the basic point. he thinks it is more important for the stock holders and shareholders and investors in -- and the venture capitalists to do well them for those employees to be part of a bargain.

they look out for their employees even the bottom line would suffer a little bit. it was not that long ago. it is one thing to make a profit. it is another thing to maximize your profit to the extent and you disregard what happens to people who work for you. that was not the republican party 24 years ago. it is the republican party now. i think they gotta back where. -- i think they have got it backwards. i think the american people are figuring it out. tos is what we're willing take to the american people. without a growing middle class, america's capacity to do everything shrinks. we're going to do this. [applause] >> i want to say a couple of

things. whether you are in the north country or in hanover or down elsewhere, those that joined from manchester, we thank you some much for joining today and bringing people together. there three ways you can get involved immediately. in the next several weeks, the president will be delivering his state of the union address. with the vice-president standing right over his shoulder, like he always does. you can host an event or decide to attend one of those events. the second thing you can do is as the republican's lead the -- as the republicans leave the new hampshire and go to other states, we will be opening offices all across. we want you to come be involved. he can help us build your local neighborhood team. get out and talk to people face- to-face.

this is how we're going to win this campaign. the combined all of it at -- you can find out about all that at nh.barackobama.com. >> one of the five state i'm going to focus on is new hampshire. when i come up, pretend you know me. [laughter] [applause] >> you have anything else you would like to say? >> thank you. we're going to win this thing. the country is ready to move. we decide to move the brush out of the way. the next four years, we're going to have an opportunity to do the things he came to do and do its without the kinds of resistance we have -- recalcitrant interference we have had. a >> thank you, new hampshire.

>> there is a lot of work ahead, so we hope to see if the -- sen. >> we will get an update and analysis on the new hampshire primary results on today's "washington journal." rich lowry of the national review joins us. we will also talk to the pbs host tavis smiley and princeton professor cornell west. james bennet on a recent story on u.s. manufacturing jobs. later, president obama will attend a white house jobs forum. the event which will include cabinet secretaries will highlight u.s. companies that decided to reopen manufacturing plants that had been operating overseas be very live coverage

begins at 12:15 p.m. eastern. and chris matthews on the attempted political maneuvering in the second kennedy and nixon presidential debate. in the second debate here in washington, nbc studios -- mixing its control of it. so he brings the level of the temperature of the room down to 40 degrees. as a meat locker per when kennedy gets there. they are racing down to the basement and they find a guy to hit the thermostat. there is a nixon guy standing guard on the thermostat. if you do not let me turn that up to 65 per seventh, i am calling the police. they end up compromising on the temperature. the idea was that they did not want necks into sweat. they had seen him sweat profusely in the first debate and they said we're not letting this happen again. they all knew what was going on. this is about who is going to

rule america, by the way, this kind of stuff to win on. >> sam donaldson interviews chris matthews on his book on jack kennedy on book tv. >> now we will hear from the winner of the new hampshire primary, mitt romney. he spoke to supporters at southern new hampshire's university in manchester. [cheers and applause] >> oh. well. [applause] >> there are so many friends here. what a great night this is. thank you, new hampshire. [applause] this could not have happened without the help lot of people. i just need to mention a few of

them. special thanks to senator kelly ayotte, governor john sununu -- i don't know where he went. senator judd gregg, congressman charlie bass. they have spoken for us and they have fought for us across the state. thank you also, mayor. the senate president. the many state legislators who have been tireless workers on our behalf. one state senator deserves special mention. jeb bradley is out there somewhere. he has fired up audiences everywhere we go. thanks to ray burton, and others who have been there for us from the very beginning.

we are grateful to the people who lead our campaign in new hampshire. jim merrill. jason mcbride, and a special thanks to the thousands of volunteers who have devoted countless hours to our calls. -- our cause. finally, we want to thank the people of new hampshire. [applause] they are the active part of this democratic process. the ones we met by knocking on doors, visiting towns and cities throughout this great state, and who turned out to meet us at one of our many events. now, guess what i want to do? i want to introduce the man who we all believe should be the next president of the united

states, mitt romney. [cheers and applause] [bob seger's "born free" playing] [chanting mitt] >> thank you. thank you. tonight, we made history. [cheers and applause] [laughter] this state has always been a very special place for our family. we made a home here and filled it with great memories of our children and grandchildren.

the granite state moment we just enjoy it is one i will always remember. i have my five sons behind me and my daughter and son-in-law and grandchildren behind me. it is great to have family here. tonight we celebrate, tomorrow we go back to work. [applause] we do remember when barack obama came to new hampshire four years ago, he promised to bring people together. he promised to change the broken system in washington. he promised to improve our nation. those were the days of lofty promises made by a political candidate. now we're dealing with a failed president. the last three years have not offered much hope. the middle class has been crushed. nearly 24 million of our fellow americans are still out of work. struggling to find work or stop

looking. the median income has dropped 10% in the last four years, and soldiers returning home from the front line are waiting now in unemployment lines. our debt is too high and opportunities are too few. and this president wakes up every morning and looks across america and is proud to announce, it could be worse. it could be worse? that's not what it means to be an american. it could be worse. of course not. what defines us as americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better and it will be better. [cheers and applause] [chanting mitt] that conviction guides our campaign.

it has rallied millions of americans in every corner of this country to our cause. over the last six months, i have listened to anxious voices in town halls and town meetings, visited with students and soldiers, in breakrooms and living rooms. i've heard stories of families getting by on less, of carefully planned retirements now replaced with jobs at minimum wage. but even now amidst the worst recovery since the great depression, i rarely heard any speech of hopelessness. americans know that our future is brighter and better than these troubled times. [applause] we still believe -- we still believe in the hope, promise, and the dream of america. we still believe in that shining city on the hill.

we know that the future of this country is better than 8% unemployment or 9% unemployment. it is better than $15 trillion in debt. it is better than the misguided promises and broken policies of the last three years and the broken promises of one man. -- and a failed leadership of one man. the president has run out of ideas. now he is running out of excuses. [laughter] [applause] and tonight -- [chanting mitt] and tonight, tonight we are asking the good people of south carolina to join the citizens of new hampshire and make 2012 the year he runs out of time. president obama wants to put free enterprise on trial. and in the last few days, we

have seen some desperate republicans joined forces with him. [booing] this is such a mistake for our party and for our nation. the country already has a leader who divides us with a bitter politics of envy. we have to offer an alternative vision. i stand ready to lead us down a different path where we are lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by our resentment of success. in difficult times, we cannot abandon the core values that define us as a unique nation. we are one nation under god.

made no mistake, in this campaign i will offer the american ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense, and we're going to win with that message. but you know that our campaign is about more than replacing the president. it is about saving the soul of america. this election is a choice between two very different destinies. president obama wants to fundamentally transform america. we want to restore america to the founding principles that made this country great. he wants to turn america into a european-style social welfare state. we want to ensure that we remain a free and prosperous land of opportunity.

this president takes his inspiration from the capitals of your. -- of your. -- of europe. we look to the cities and towns across america for our inspiration. the president puts his face and government. -- puts his faith in government. we put our faith in the american people. [cheers and applause] this president is making the federal government bigger and bloated. i will make it simpler, smarter, and smaller. he raised the national debt. i will cut, cap, and balance the federal budget. [chanting mitt]

this president has enacted jobs killing regulation. i will eliminate them. he lost our aaa credit rating. i will restore it. he passed obamacare. i will repeal it. and when -- and when it comes to the economy, my highest priority as president will be worrying about your job, not about saving my own. now internationally, president obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. he believes america's role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. i think a strong america must and will lead the future. he does not see the need for overwhelming military superiority. i will insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it.

he criticizes our friends like israel. i will always stand with our friends. and he apologizes for america, and i will never apologize for the greatest nation in the history of the earth. our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the constitution of the united states. now the path i lay out is not

one paved with ever-increasing government checks, and cradle to grave assurances that government will always be the solution. if this election is a bidding war for those it can promise the most benefit, then i am not your president. you already have that president. if you want to make this election about restoring american greatness, then i hope you'll join us. if you believe the disappointment of the last few years are a detour, not a destiny, then i am asking for your vote. i am asking each of you to remember how special it is to be an american. i want you to remember what it was like to be helpful and excited about the future, not to dread each new headline. i want you to remember when you spend more time dreaming about where you send your kids to college than worrying about how to make it to the next paycheck. i want you to remember when our -- when you were not afraid to look at your retirement savings or the price at the pump. i want you to remember when our

white house reflected the best of who we are, not the worst of what europe has become. that america is still out there. we still believe in that america. we still believe -- we believe, we believe. we still believe in the america that is a land of opportunity and a beacon of freedom. we believe in the america that challenges each of us to be better and bigger than ourselves paying this election, let's go on to fight for the america we love, because we believe in america. thank you so much. god bless america. thank you, you're the best.

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>> now we will hear from congressman ron paul did finish second in the new hampshire primaries. he spoke to supporters in manchester. ♪ >> president paul! president paul! president paul! president paul! >> thank you very much. i really do not have to introduce my wife. i think you know my wife, carol. we have a few other members of the family here. we have our daughter-in-law, peggy. we have lisa -- linda, linda.

we have another member of the families on the staff, but he is technically in the family, he is a grand son-in-law. jesse benton. it is a delight, and jim, senator forsythe, thank you for your support along with andy, your co-sponsorship, i appreciate all that. i do want to mention three names of people who did organization. jerry, i do not know if he is here. probably still making phone calls or something. and bob goodman, a tremendous amount of work here. and george bryan, he was fantastic. there was one other acknowledgement i wanted to make. i wanted to thank the "union leader" for not endorsing me. [cheers and applause]

i called governor romney a short while ago before he gave his talk and congratulated him because he had a clear-cut victory. but we are nibbling at his heels. but there was another victory tonight. he had a victory, but we have had a victory for the cause of liberty . [applause] there is no doubt that this whole effort that we're involved in will not go unnoticed, let me tell you. i think the intellectual revolution going on now to

restore liberty in this country is well on its way and there is no way they are going to stop the momentum that we have started. [applause] and that is the victory that you have brought about, because you have been the ones that have done the work. there are a lot of people here, but the ones across the country, the donors and the excitement on the campuses, it is just unbelievable. if we do not always get the coverage or the interest shown on what is going on, because if they did, they would not ignore some much of what we're doing. i find it sort of fascinating when they finally get around and these are different people, it could be in the media or our opponents, but i have to chuckle when they describe you and me as being dangerous. [applause]

that is one thing they're telling the truth, because we are dangerous to the status quo of this country. [cheers and applause] >> president paul! president paul! president paul! president paul! >> and we will remain a danger to the federal reserve system as well. >> end the fed! end the fed! >> that's right -- end the fed! >> end the fed! end the fed! end the fed! >> you know, in studying monetary history from the beginning our history and throughout history, monetary policy on periodic occasions

will become the dominant issue. we have emphasized that and it has become an important issue. just think, this is the first presidential campaign that the subjectever came up since the federal reserve was started. it will remain a dominant issue, there is no way they will put it to bed because they have destroyed our money, it is worldwide, there is a financial crisis going on, and it is only sound money and personal liberty that can solve the crisis that we have today. one reason that i talk about the monetary system so much, it was a sneaky deceitful way to pay the bills. an honest government that wants to be a big spending government would tax the people, and then the people would know what they were doing. if we had to pay taxes for

everything that they do, the people would rise up and stop it. so then they started borrowing money a lot, and people did not notice that quite as much, because they passed that on. and then they resorted to the printing of the money and that is why the federal reserve was established, to take care of the powerful interests, the military-industrial complex, the bank system, and deficit financing. a couple of reasons they have deficit financing. sometimes there are conservatives that want deficit financing and sometimes there are liberals who want deficit financing, and they have resorted to this. of course this is why we are facing this crisis today. but it also serves those interests who like to think that we have this responsibility -- they claim it is a moral responsibility to take our young people, put them into the military, and send them hither and yon around the world police in the world and using up the money. [booing]

just as we have been able to bring to the forefront the most important issue of that funny money, the fiat money and the federal reserve, we brought it to the forefront. others have not openly talked about it and they do nothing about it. there is a liberty movement that is saying to the country and to the world, we have had enough of sending our kids and our money around the world to be the policeman of the world. it is time to bring them home. [applause] >> bring them home! bring them home! bring them home. bring them home. bring them home. >> the one thing is we know that they will come home.

my goal and our goal has always been to bring them home in a deliberate fashion to avoid major economic crisis by destroying our economy by spending so much overseas. in the last 10 years, the wars going on have added $4 trillion of debt. i do not think we have been one bit more safe for it. i think we have been less safe because of all the money we have spent overseas. this is the issue now. it is an issue that i think it's crucial. jim mentioned in the introduction that so often they say that if we tell people that we think we should spend less in the military, "oh, that means you want to cut defense." no, if you cut the military industrial complex, you cut war profiteering but you do not take one penny out of national defence.

and besides, we are flat out broke. fortunately we did not have to fight the soviets. the soviets brought themselves down for economic reasons. do you know that they were so foolish and thought themselves so boldthat they could pursue their world empire and invade afghanistan? but we will come home, but if we do it now, calmly and deliberately, we can save our economy here at home. because there are a lot of people suffering here at home. you have to stop inflation. that is what destroys the middle class and transfers the wealth from the poor and the middle class to the wealthy. that is why the wealthy got their bailouts and the middle class shrunk and they lost their jobs in their houses. so this is what we have to do. we have to cut the spending. this is why i have made a token suggestion in the first year of office, we would cut at least $1 trillion from the budget. [applause]

now the one thing -- the talk here in washington is pure talk because there's nobody suggesting -- the other candidates are not talking about real cuts. they are talking about cutting proposed increases out in 10 years. they say it will cut $1 trillion. yes over 10 years, $100 billion every year. our national debt is going up $100 billion every month and they claim that is cutting and they are yelling and screaming, we cannot cut. we cannot cut. we have to cut. we have to live within our means if we want to be able to at least take care of the people who have been made to be so dependent on the government. i mean, we ought to work our way out. if we did this and cut the overseas spending, at least we might be able to allow the social security beneficiaries to get their checks and medical care provided. but if we continue to do what

we're doing, the results are that the dollar is destroyed and the whole thing comes apart and it is going to be a worldwide phenomenon. already social security beneficiaries are suffering a lot. their income is shrinking because the value of the dollar is going down. they are getting their checks cut. you have to think about cutting and stopping inflation and ask once again as our founders did, what should the role of government be in a free society? the role should be very simple -- the protection of liberty. >> ron paul revolution. bring us back our constitution!

>> wonderful, wonderful. no, the constitution was written for a very precise manner. it was not designed to restrain the individual. not to restrain you. it was to protect your liberties and to restrain the federal government. our liberty has to be reemphasized because we have been careless of the last 100 years. we have taken liberty and chopped it up into pieces. to some people, liberty has to do with personal habits, which i agree. other people think liberty is about how to spend your money and they fight about when to do what. i think what we need to do is make this emphasis -- liberty means you have a right in your privacy and the way you want to live your life as long as you do not hurt people and you have the right tokeep and spend your money as you want to. freedom is a wonderful idea. that is why i get so excited and i really get excited when i see young people saying it.

it really is a wonderful idea. freedom is popular, don't you know that? freedom brings people together. i think it is magnificent, the crowds that have come out of the weeks and months that have been very diverse. it should be. because some people want their freedom to practice their religion one way, and maybe another way, some might not even want to practice it at all. but freedom, if you understand it, you should all fight for freedom because you want to exert your freedom the same way that you want. the same with economic freedom. it should bring people together. i think this is one reason people wonder about how you put together coalitions, how are you going to compromise and give up some of your beliefs in order to get something passed. you do not have to compromise. you have to emphasize the coalition that people want their freedoms for different reasons and bring them together.

americas been the greatest country ever, the most prosperous country ever, the largest middle-class ever. it is not that way today. our middle class is shrinking, the country is getting poorer, the wealth is based on debt, the few that really holds the debt shift it due to the regulations to control our government. we have had too many people too long in the last 100 years thinking that it was beneficial to have high paid lobbyists to get them to find out what they can get from the government, rather than us petitioning our government in a proper manner, petitioning our government and demanding our freedoms back again. a lot of times they give us trouble and they say, freedom, you people are just too selfis. all you want to do is have your

freedom. they argure that is the case. the bleeding hearts, i understand them and i recognize them and i think most of them are well intended. it does not work is the problem. all the good intentions of saying we're going to give everybody a free house and loans and then they can borrow against the equity, look what happened. it was a bubble, it burst, and they lost their homes. humanitarian instincts are there across the board. if you are a true humanitarian, you have to fight and argue the case for free markets, sound money, property rights, contract rights, no use of force, and a sensible foreign policy so that we do not waste our resources. [applause] we are well on our way.

we are well on our way. people ask me what i expect five years or 10 years ago. i had no idea. i always assumed the best i could do was set a record. i did not know you were out there. [applause] it is no longer that irate minorities stirring up the troops. now the irate minority, so tireless you have been, it is growing by leaps and bounds. it will continue to grow by leaps and bounds. and we will restore freedom to this country. thank you very much. thank you. >> president paul! president paul! president paul! president paul! president paul! president paul! president paul! president paul!

[cheers and applause] ♪ >> next we will hear jon huntsman talk to supporters in manchester. call former utah governor finished third and then new hampshire primaries. -- in the new hampshire primaries. ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, i think we are in the hunt. [applause]

>> join the hunt! >> thank you, ladies and gentlemen. i would say third place is a ticket to ride, ladies and gentlemen. hello, south carolina. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, we are here tonight because of you. we have got the greatest of volunteers and greatest organizers the state has ever seen. give yourself a hand. [applause] we have proved a point that this state wants its candidates to earn it the old-fashioned way. that is on the ground, handshake by handshake, conversation by conversation,

vote by vote, we got it done, ladies and gentlemen. [applause] do you know what else we got done during this great seven months where we have had at least 170 public events in this great state? 170 public event and that no one even came close. we had conversations about the importance of putting this country first, ladies and gentlemen. [chanting "country first"] because the people of this great nation, the greatest nation that ever was, they are tired of being divided.

they want leadership that will tell us the first and foremost we need to come together as americans to even solve our problems. [applause] we need a president, ladies and gentlemen, that will stand up and say we have an economic deficit -- is called $15 trillion in debt. this is not a debt problem, it is a national security problem. we will not leave it to the next generation of americans. i want to stand up and i want to square with the american people about this. afghanistan is not our nation's future. iran is not this nation's future. -- that iraq is not this nation's future. our nation's future is how prepared we are to rise up and had on the challenges in the

21st century. do you know what i am talking about? and this is about economics. this is about education and this is going to play out over the pacific ocean with countries that i have lived in before. all i can tell you tonight without any hint of hyperbole, folks, if we do not get our act together at home, we will see the end of the american century by 2050. we will not let that happen, will we? ladies and gentlemen, we also have been able to get our message out to the people of this great state about a second deficit that we have. it is not a economic deficit but it is just as corrosive. it is called a trust deficit.

the people of the greatest nation that ever was, the united states of america, no longer trust their institutions of power. they no longer trust their elected officials. i say how did we get to the spot? we are too good of people to be in this hall. we are the most problem-solving, can-do optimistic people on earth and we are going to get out there and address the trust deficit. it is going to start with congress. everybody knows that congress needs term limits. [cheers and applause] everybody knows we have to close the revolving door that allows members of congress to file out to become lobbyists trading in on their insider information. and we wonder why there is cynicism toward congress? no trust. there is no trust abroad. we will fix that.

i will stand up in front of the american people and i will say we have something to show for our years in the war of terror. something to show for the american people that is important. we have run the taliban from power. we have dismantled al qaeda. the arundell and sanctuaries an apparent -- they are now in sanctuaries. osama bin laden is no longer around. we have had free elections. we have strengthed civil society and helped the military and the police. we have done what this nation can do. it is time to bring the troops home from afghanistan. [applause] we need trust infused back into this nation. we need a president that will stand up and say it is time for us to come together. this nation, the greatest

nation on earth, has every attribute a nation would never want for success. that is why we are going to succeed as we go forward. all we need is a little bit of leadership and a plan. i saw this nation from 10,000 miles away -- you hear me? 10,000 miles away. when you see this nation from abroad, you tend to see it in bold colors. the you know what i saw livingi saw a nation with the greatest people on earth. a nation that is down for the moment and down temporarily. a nation that is about to rise up again because we have every attribute a nation would ever want to succeed. we have stability. we have rule of law. we have the longest surviving constitution and the world. we even have private property rights right here in new hampshire.

we have the greatest colleges and universities on earth and people flocked here to attend them. we have the most creative entrepreneur real people and they are sitting on their hands because there is no confidence and i about the direction or leadership of this nation. i say that is an engine of growth that we are going to and i refire. we have the greatest and most courageous armed forces this nation has ever seen. [cheers and applause] i will be darned if we are going to allow the men and women to come from the theatres of combat to the unemployment lines. that is not going to happen. those men and women who have