counties with that same phrase, pound for pound, no one takes it to them more. i can t thank him enough and the entire iowa team, you guys. thank you for everything you all have done. i just have some prepared ma remarks. i m so grateful you re here and then we ll have a party afterwards so stick around. thank you so much, everyone and thank you to iowa, my home state. i ve called ron paul, mitt romney, rick santorum, newt gingrich, rick perry to congratulate each one of them on their respective places this evening in the lineup. the people of iowa have spoken and they have written the very first chapter in this long journey to take our country back from barack obama and make no mistake, we will. [ cheers and applause ] once again, this wonderful republic that we are privileged to live in has worked. the process worked. it s the people of iowa who chose tonight. it wasn t the pundits. it wasn t the media and while
as best you can down in iowa. pro life. all know your window is different. it doesn t party if he gets walloped there. he won t get walloped. i don t think he will. he ll show better. he ll get some traction out there. gingrich will help him out but gingrich might have a credibility problem too. all of a sudden gingrich is the high and mighty voice of how complains ought to be run. let s not get too close to gingrich, santorum. how gingrich goes after him and the real problem is that if i m in romney s camp, i want to go to new hampshire and start running against president obama. now he has got to run against santorum. and the longer that narrative plays, the better it is for the president. that s i think he says i can t say enough nice things about santorum. i ve seen him on the stump. he does talk about manufacturing. he talks about repatriating money coming back into the united states. zero percent when it comes to corporate tax.
[ cheers and applause ] so on that front we ll have a very important debate. is the world dangerous and do we need to be strong enough to protect ourselves or is the world really safe and it s just the americans who are confused? i have no doubt about 9/11. it was bad people trying to kill us. it wasn t americans. i have no doubt about the iranians, and i have no doubt about the importance of the survival of israel as a moral cause which we have to recognize as central to our future. [ applause ] so we ll have a great debate with congressman paul and it s important for setting a new stable foreign policy for the 21st century. we ll have one other great debate and that is whether this party wants a reagan conservative who helped change washington in the 1980s with
defending innocent unborn life or protecting marriage between one man and one woman. if anyone is confused, so we can defeat barack obama and his failed socialist policies, i believe that i am that true conservative who can and who will defeat barack obama in 2012. and over the next few days just be prepared. the pundits and the press will again try to pick the nominee based on tonight s results but there are many more chapters to be written on the path to our party s nomination. and i prefer to let the people of the country decide who will represent us. and, of course, i m very deeply grateful to our iowa team to the many dedicated volunteers who have given so much of their time to this effort. it s absolutely amazing to see our offices filled day after day with young people. and they selflessly volunteered because they need to have a better future full of more opportunities than our
counties with that same phrase, pound for pound, no one takes it to them more. i can t thank him enough and the entire iowa team, you guys. thank you for everything you all have done. i just have some prepared ma remarks. i m so grateful you re here and then we ll have a party afterwards so stick around. thank you so much, everyone and thank you to iowa, my home state. i ve called ron paul, mitt romney, rick santorum, newt gingrich, rick perry to congratulate each one of them on their respective places this evening in the lineup. the people of iowa have spoken and they have written the very first chapter in this long journey to take our country back from barack obama and make no mistake, we will. [ cheers and applause ] once again, this wonderful republic that we are privileged to live in has worked. the process worked. it s the people of iowa who chose tonight. it wasn t the pundits. it wasn t the media and while