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Good evening. >> thank you for having me. >> greta: thank you for being here. i'm curious. i have been looking at your comments and since the iowa caucus, your comments are directed only at least as far as i can see as governor mitt romney. have you decided in your mind that governor mitt romney is the candidate that you need not worry about the other ones? >> no, as i said before, mitt romney has simply earned this kind of scrutiny. when you are someone who operates without core conviction, when you are a candidate like mitt romney who has exclusive focused and trained your attacks an mischar...

>> greta: thank you for being here. i'm curious. i have been looking at your comments and since the iowa caucus, your comments are directed only at least as far as i can see as governor mitt romney. have you decided in your mind that governor mitt romney is the candidate that you need not worry about the other ones? >> no, as i said before, mitt romney has simply earned this kind of scrutiny. when you are someone who operates without core conviction, when you are a candidate like mitt romney who has exclusive focused and trained your attacks an mischaracterizations and distortions of president...

Surprise sos far for me, at least, i may -- maybe you can weigh in. are you surprised, ron paul doing very well. now there is a new cnn poll that has mitt romney at 25. ron paul, 22. up until today, ron paul was leading. does that surprise you? >> you know, everything is so in flux right now. about half of iowans are completely undecided. that's why we decided to embark on our 99 county tour all across iowa. i'm in winterset, iowa right now, we're deep in the heart of madison county. this is our 94th county. what we've seen is something really remarkable. it's almost like an electric light swi...

American people to see it. don't forget for a moment no matter who the nominee is, president obama and his team will make sure they take apart our nominee limb by limb. we need to remember that we need a candidate who has no surprises. who is a true conservative with a core conviction. i think i'm the best choice on that score. >> greta: i think the media is somewhat complicity in this. i don't think the candidates are without blame themselves. we're seeing the super pack and ron paul taking ads out going against newt gingrich. ron paul making an announcement that you hate muslims. it's not ju...

That image. that's why they also keep saying, send us somebody to love. they want somebody who's got that core conviction, who cannot only take on the president, but present that image of a very strong republican candidate without a lot of extraneous baggage, without scandals popping up every five minutes, without reports that he's not really get with the program. >> and gingrich oddly enough doesn't really fit that bill, even though he's the front-runner right now, taking his turn as the not-mitt, gingrich does not really fit that bill. >> because you know so much, ron. you know too much! yes...