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stunning iowa success? is time running out for these candidates to catch the front-runner? save their campaigns? we ve got some tough decisions to make. we are going to take america back. believe me, this momentum is going to continue. the voting has begun. the stakes couldn t be any higher. n tonight, we put them all to the test. so what s next in this campaign season filled with so many dramatic surprises? this is the abc news republican presidential debate. your voice. your vote. now joining us tonight from new hampshire s own wmur, political director josh mckelvin. good evening to all of you. welcome to st. anselm college and the first debate of 2012. those eight votes in iowa vote counts. we are off and running. great to be here with you, josh. now let s introduce the candidates. former governor jon huntsman, ron paul, former governor of massachusetts, mitt romney, rick santorum, former speak of the house newt gingrich and texas governor rick perry. time
new head coach. some call him an outsider. others say, you know what? maybe that s not such a bad thing. we re going to tell you the coming to jesus moment they had with the outcider. we have an over the counter drug recall to tell you about this morning. painkiller and many other drugs that you have in medicine cabinets. and did you hear the one about tim tebow? i m kidding. did you hear this one? holy moly! and i stress the holy! is it divine intervention? what s this guy got that nobody else got? and will it get him all the way where he needs to go? i don t even like football and i m excited about it. and a rookie to boot, right? i know. who knew? but up first this morning, it s final kounddown to the new hampshire primary. republican field is tangled in two weekend debates or they tangoed. mitt romney is ahead in the polls. we have other candidates trying to knock him down. so here we are in the eve of the first in the mags new hampshire primary. let s get perspec
that time frame. i think it s a huge error for adviser. i worked with him in the 80s on the strategy to defeat the soviet empire. if you re worried about the iranians in iraq, develop a strategy to replace the iranians dictatorship and iraq will be fine. if you want to stop wahhabiism, get an american energy policy so no american president ever bows to a saudi king. then you can put pressure on the saudis because you have enough american energy to stop this. governor romney, let s you have said that you would not send troops in right now. but give us a sense of the trigger, what would it take for you to send troops back in? it s a very high hurdle. the decision to send our men and women into harm s way is one which will be made with great seriousness and sobriety what kind of things? you can t begin to say, but it would have to require significant, dramatic american interests. you have to have a president explain the interests and indicated how we d go in. we d g