but, you know, back in texas a&m, my am ma mattlma mater, we unique way of addressing defeat.s never lose. we just run out of time. so you can say that my presidential campaign just ran out of time. but i haven't run out on the ideas or my beliefs in our shared conservative ideas. a candidate i am no more. but a committed tenth amendment conservative i will be until the last breath i draw in my body. there is not about merely ending record debt, run away spending, fail washington policies represented in the form of the obama administration. the question has never been whether obama must go but what kind of leadership is needed to replace him to get this country back on track? we do the american people no great service if we replace the current embodiment of big government with a lukewarm version of the same. we need to stop pretending -- [ applause ] we need to stop pretending that they'll do the same thing as democrats but just don't spend as much money. quit believing that. quit doing that. we didn't lose the house in 2006 because of an unpopular war but because the republic