Doug Wead - And then there were four.

MINUTES. >>> MEANWHILE, RON PAUL HAS BEEN CAMPAIGNING LESS AGGRESSIVELY IN SOUTH CAROLINA THAN HE HAS IN THE OTHER EARLY VOTING STATES. BUT IT'S PART OF A LARGER PLAN TAKEN STRAIGHT FROM PRESIDENT OBAMA'S 2008 CAMPAIGN PLAYBOOK. AFTER POSTING STRONG FINISHES IN IOWA AND NEW HAMPSHIRE, THE GOOD DOCTOR WHO YOU AREN'T SEEING THERE, IS NOW FOCUSING ON LOW-COST STATES HOLDING CAUCUSES THAT CAN YIELD A LARGE NUMBER OF DELEGATES. I'M JOINLED BY DOUG WEAD, SENIOR ADVISER FOR THE RON PAUL CAMPAIGN. NICE TO SEE YOU, DOUG. THANKS FOR JOINING ME THERE IN THE. >> THANKS, ALEX. THIS IS IT RON PAUL WEATHER. >> I HOPE THAT WORKS FOR YOU! I WANT TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT THE PRIMARY TODAY. YOU'RE NOT LIKELY TO WIN IT, I THINK YOU KNOW THAT. YOU'RE EFFECTIVELY SKIPPING FLORIDA NEXT WEEK. >> UNLESS IT SNOWS. >> RIGHT. HOW DO YOU ENVISION THIS PLAYING OUT WITHOUT THE NATIONAL ATTENTION THESE TWO CONTESTS WOULD GENERATE FOR YOU? >> BEAUTIFUL. IT'S TURNING OUT BEAUTIFUL. YOU REMEMBER THAT GREAT AGATHA CHRISTIE AND BOOK "TEN LITTLE INDIANS AND THEN THERE WERE NONE"? AND THEN THERE WERE FOUR. AND NOW THAT NEWT GINGRICH IS CHALLENGING ROMNEY IN SOUTH CAROLINA, OUR FEELING IS, WHOEVER WINS, IT DOESN'T MATTER, JUST THE FACT THAT NEWT GINGRICH COULD CHALLENGE MITT ROMNEY SHOWS FOR US IT'S A WIDE-OPEN RACE, IT ISN'T OVER, ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN. AND THERE'S STILL GOING TO BE MONEY PUMPED INTO BOTH CAMPAIGNS. THAT'S VERY GOOD FOR US. >> OKAY. LET'S PLAY A LITTLE BIT FROM THAT THURSDAY DEBATE. HERE IS AN EXCHANGE WE'RE GOING TO PLAY BETWEEN RON PAUL AND MITT ROMNEY. >> WE NEED TOHAVE SOMEONE OUTSIDE WASHINGTON GO TO WASHINGTON. IF WE WANT PEOPLE WHO SPENT THEIR LIFE AND MOST OF THEIR CAREER IN WASHINGTON WE HAVE THREE PEOPLE ON THE STAGE. I TAKE THAT BACK. WE HAVE A DOCTOR BACK HERE WHO SPENT MOST OF HIS TIME IN THE SURGERY SUITE. NOT SURGERY. THE BIRTHING SUITE. BUT I JUST -- I THINK AMERICA HAS TO MAKE A CHOICE AS TO WHETHER WE'RE GOING TO SEND PEOPLE WHO SPENT THEIR LIFE IN WASHINGTON TO GO REPRESENT OUR COUNTRY OR INSTEAD WHETHER WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SOMEONE GO WHO'S BEEN A LEADER IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR AND KNOWS HOW THE REAL ECONOMY WORKS AT THE GRASS ROOTS LEVEL. >> NOW, DOUG, A LOT OF PEOPLE INTERPRETED THAT FROM ROMNEY AS BEING EXTREMELY DEFER RESHL TO RON PAUL. DO YOU THINK HE COULD BE AIMING FOR RON PAUL SUPPORTERS EVENTUALLY? >> I THINK ALL OF THE CANDIDATES OUGHT TO. THERE'S NO PATH TO THE WHITE HOUSE WITHOUT RON PAUL. IN THE GENERAL ELECTION THEY'RE GOING TO NEED THE VAST NUMBERS OF YOUNG PEOPLE, MOST OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE I WORKED ALL ACROSS IOWA NEW HAMPSHIRE AND HERE IN SOUTH CAROLINA TELL ME FOUR YEARS AGO THEY VOTED FOR BARACK OBAMA IF THEY VOTED. SOME OF THEM WERE TOO YOUNG TO VOTE. THEY'RE GOING TO NEED HIM IN THE GENERAL. AND IT LOOKS LIKE, IF NEWT GINGRICH MAKES A RUN HERE AND HE APPARENTLY HAS WHETHER HE WINS OR NOT HE'S MADE THE RUN, THAT THERE'S NO WAY THAT NEWT GINGRICH COULD WIN THE NOMINATION WITHOUT RON PAUL. 'S NOT EVEN ON THE BALANCE LOOT. THERE BALLOTS THAT NEWT GINGRICH AND SANTORUM AREN'T ON THE BALLOT. . LAST POLL ANY OF THE MAJOR NETWORKS, THE CNN POLL, SHOWS ONLY TWO CANDIDATES BEATING BARACK OBAMA, THAT'S RON PAUL AND MITT ROMNEY. YOU DON'T HEAR MUCH ATTENTION TO THAT POLL, BUT IT'S A REALITY WE DEAL WITH TV THANK YOU FOR BRINGING IT TO OUR ATTENTION. RON PAUL HAS NOT ATTACKED ROMNEY VERY MUCH. THE OVERWHELMING MA JOORT OF HIS ATTACKS HAS BEEN AT GINGRICH AND SANTORUM. WHY? DO YOU THINK MOVER ATTENTION WOULD BE FOCUSED ON THE REPUBLICAN FRONT-RUNNER IN THE OTHER CIRCUMSTANCE. >> NO, NOT NECESSARILY SO. WE SEE IT AS A WAR OF ATTRITION AND WE KNOW THE NUMBERS ARE STACKED AGAINST MITT ROMNEY. THAT'S WHY THIS IS SO IMPORTANT WITH THE DYNAMIC THAT'S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. MITT ROMNEY IS THE ELITE CANDIDATE, THE GOLDMAN SACHS CANDIDATE, THE OBAMA OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. HE'S GOING TO BE ANOINTED LIE ED MUSKY WAS, RUDOLPH GIULIANI. IF HE DOESN'T MAKE IT THROUGH THESE FIRST CONTESTS THAT THE REPUBLICAN INSIDERS MOVED UP FOR HIS BENEFIT AND ARRANGED FOR HIS BENEFIT, THEN IT'S WIDE OPEN AND HE KNOWS HE'S GOT TO DO IT QUICKLY. IF WE CAN HAVE SOME OF THE OTHER CANDIDATES DROP OUT -- AND FIVE OF THEM HAVE -- WE BECOME THE ALTERNATIVE CANDIDATE AND THE POLLS SHOW CLEARLY THAT MAYBE 30% OR SO OF THE VOTERS WANT ROMNEY, THE OTHER 70% WANT SOMEONE MORE CONSERVATIVE. >> NO, BOTTOM LINE RIGHT NOW, ARE YOU GUYS JUST RUNNING A MARATHON AND YOU'RE EITHER JUST STAYING IN IT TO POTENTIALLY BE A KING MAKER AT THE END OF IT? >> YES AND NO. YES, WE'RE RUNNING A MARATHON BUT, NO, WE'RE STILL GOING AFTER THE NOMINATION BECAUSE FROM OUR STANDPOINT A LOT OF THESE EARLY CONTESTS MOVED UP EARLY. WE KNEW WE WOULDN'T DO THAT WELL. WE LIKE THE WAY THE NUMBERS ARE MOVING. JUST A MONTH AGO, WE WERE 6% IN SOUTH CAROLINA. NOW WE ARE THE ONLY EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN IN THE RACE AND WE HAVE MORE DONATIONS FROM THE MILITARY THAN ALL THE OTHER CANDIDATES COMBINED AND WE'RE THE ONLY VETERAN IN THE RACE. WE LIKE THE WAY THE NUMBERS ARE