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The faith tand gaeme compaf coalition wraps up tonight. mike pence will deliver the key note address. ali vitali is there. what have yyou been learning an what is the tempo like? >> reporter: our security sweep just ended. and a lot of people are excited to hear what the vice president has to say. you and i have pabapain been tag about this, but the cros not deterred from what they are hear trgt comey testimo ing from the comey testimony. they are looking to hear the bread and birth what has made him a conservative darling. this group is receptive to that message that high pressure has brought...

Campaign positions him as a leader of movement conservatives, evangelical christians. in every single exit poll and every single poll when very conservative self-described republican voters, evangelicals and tea partiers were asked who they wanted for president, it was rick santorum who was the candidate of true conservativism and true moral values. that was not able to surpass or overcome mitt romney's advantage with money and national organization, so rick santorum in gettysburg, pennsylvania, in a matter of moments expected to, essentially, withdraw from the campaign, suspending it indefini...

Mitt romney's flip-flops, he is a conservative. he's as conservative as we want now. you're making a point for consistency and you're making a point for consistency again against someone who ran in massachusetts, one of the most liberal states of the union. would michele bachmann, herman cain, newt gingrich, john mccain from arizona, would they have been so conservative if they were running against ted kennedy in massachusetts? >> what is the litmus test? what is this? it seems like it's getting in the way of what's good for the country and who might be the best candidate. i mean, it seems to ...

Best shot at winning? don't they want to do that? >> yeah, yeah. well, i think so. part of what i think -- well two things are affecting a lot of these primary voters. i think in the end they'll vote for romney so they do want to win. one is it feels like 1980. like i say, obama just seems like a big fat target and so they really want to find their ronald reagan. unfortunately ronald reagan isn't running this year so they have to come to terms with that. the other thing is many, including myself, believe that conservativism is popular. ronald reagan was very popular. you ask people issue by is...

To win. and yet this year, we've had sarah palin, donald trump, michele bachmann, then herman cain and rick perry. you've had all of these people who just aren't going to win at general elections. do you think conservatives eventually will say, we're going to get pragmatic. we want to beat this guy? >> i think there is a big difference between the republican and democratic parties. when the democratic party wants to win they have to hide their left wing. when the republican party wants to win, they have to produce and brag about their right wing. that's my point in mentioning specific issues. ...