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Come and state your name and your question please. >> my name is ann ford. can you convince me as a true conservative why we should vote for you oh moderate republican against any of the other candidates? when you flip flop if you are elected and break campaign promises like obama has. >> you get to know me best buy looking at my record as governor. i served for four years. in that responsibility i had a number of issues that came to my desk. i served as a conservative governor. we balanced the budget every year for four years. at the end of the term we put in place the $2 billion rainy day fu...

we're picking up new information and he's also getting a nut ew endorse. . i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." he's not just the new republican presidential front-runner, newt gingrich is leading the republican pack by double digits in several brand-new polls. a gallop national survey of registered republicans shows him 15 points ahead of mitt romney. 37% to 22%. less than a month away from the iowa caucuses. a new cbs new york times poll has gingrich 14 points ahead of romney. as former front-runners know, top status meepz extra scrutiny and he was grilled about some o...

Like reagan. >> of. what do you say to that. >> look another my record. i didn't raise taxes. balanced the budget every year i was in office. a $3 billion budget gap when i came in. by the time i was finished we not only had balanced budgets we had a $2 billion rainy day fund in place. and high standards for the schools. we make sure the kids to graduate from high school had to pass a graduation exam. i'm for keeping the bush tax rates in place and hold them down. i want to lower our federal tax rates. i think conservatives in my party will see i'm a rock solid conservative. you pointed it out...

Like reagan. >> of. what do you say to that. >> look another my record. i didn't raise taxes. balanced the budget every year i was in office. a $3 billion budget gap when i came in. by the time i was finished we not only had balanced budgets we had a $2 billion rainy day fund in place. and high standards for the schools. we make sure the kids to graduate from high school had to pass a graduation exam. i'm for keeping the bush tax rates in place and hold them down. i want to lower our federal tax rates. i think conservatives in my party will see i'm a rock solid conservative. you pointed it out...

To ache care of the budget is to eliminate the department of education. i wonder how realistic is that. how would you use to evaluate which programs to keep and which programs to reduce? >> i had the same kind of problem when i came as the governor of my state. we had a huge budget gap and we decided to look at every program we had and ask is this program essential? in the case of federal programs i'd look to each program and say is this program so essential to america that it's worth borrowing money from china to pay for it? a lot of things i like, a lot of programs i like have to end because...