should be supporting the the revolutionaries in syria with military equipment and any other kind of support that we can give them indirectly. as far as direct support and senator mccain was talking about air support, i am not prepared to go there at this point in time. but certainly, someone like senator mccain has put that forward, then i would certainly consider it. greta: now to last night s result. razor close in ohio. i wonder, though, does your strategy change at all, based on the results of last night? do you rework where you are going to focus, what you are going to do? well, no matter, actually, we were very pleased with last night. the fact we were able to go in to speaker gingrich s back yard and have a decisive victory in tennessee. and having him finish third and same thing in oklahoma, another strong win for us. in a state that i know that, you
incons quential, had the iowa race, had the night that the caucus ended, you be declared the winner, instead of waiting 10 days. do you think that has any impact or that s incons quental at this point? the answer is that, of course, the narrative was set, governor romney was on this historic roll and unbeatable. and that certainly helped him in new hampshire, but it helped him there and finished second in iowa and that s finishing second, not first. you don t get the bump, even though it was only 8 votes, it was 8 votes! and the recount showed it was the another way around. but, you know, greta, i gotta tell you, things have worked out for me. i can t complain too much about how things have happened. we got, you know, we got the notification of the win, the south carolina, didn t help us out much. but it did get us the legitimacy to say, hey, we have won a
know, he was considering his southern strategy. the fact that we did very, very well well and we were outspent by everybody. that s the normal thing. we no longer we don t see that as necessarily a big issue for us. we have a strong base of support because we are the strong conviction conservative in this race. i think that s showing itself, our win in norg dakota was enormous. congressman paul had people up there for months, governor romney had everybody in the establishment up there. no one gave us a chance. we pulled out 40% of the vote. i am looking at places where our message is able to get through. ohio was a great state for us. the fact that we hung in there in spite of the pounding just shows us that our message is resonating. once we believe we can get down this race, eventually to where it s me against governor romney, i like my chances a lot of. greta: you think this would be a different race or that it s
same commitment. greta: all right. well, there seem to be two very spate issues, one is the social issues. i think most people would mutt your campaign has run on the social issues and the other on the economic issues. it seems that the romney campaign, for whatever reason gets more attention on the economic issues. how do you get off your political tombstone that you are the social-issue guy so you can reach the american people on the economic issues about gasoline prices and debt and all of those things? because there seems to be one narrative about you right now? well, you know, i can t stop what the media wants to do. they love to paint caricatures of people. but i am traveling the country with a hunk of shale rock from north dakota and talking about how we need to build a keystone pipeline and extract scpoil fight the radical environmentalists. i got in trouble for for the