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Romney vows ‘new conservative era’ if elected

Mitt Romney delivers remarks to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, DC. Mitt Romney aggressively defended his conservative record, insisting he’s the man who can unite Republicans and defeat President Barack Obama in the “battle for the soul of America.”

“This country we love is in jeopardy,” Romney told a crowd of thousands at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) meeting in Washington.

“I am convinced that if we do our job, if we lead with conviction and integrity, that history will record the Obama presidency as the last gasp of liberalism’s great failure and a turning point for a new conservative era.”

The upcoming November election, he said, “really is a battle for the soul of America.”

Romney’s campaign to be nominated the party’s 2012 standard-bearer to challenge Obama has been rattled by concern he cannot close the deal with the ultra-conservatives. He lost three nominating contests this week to surging religious conservative Rick Santorum.

Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, sought to put aside once and for all the lingering doubts about his credentials, saying “I was a severely conservative Republican governor

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