Only quibble is the final one. We are not putting social issues front and center. Personally, I am focused 90% on small government, conservative fiscal ideas, so I don’t have a stake in the argument, but we have pretty much minimized those the last two cycles. Obama inserted a made up ‘war of women’ into the strategy, we didn’t play along. It worked though. A decent number of women voted thinking we are going to put them in chains in the dungeon or some such thing. Not sure how we avoid talking about it we are under attack.
It was in our platform and needs to exit it. It does not mean we do not pursue it, it means we adopt our opponents tactics to forward it. We need to start playing the game as it is, not as we wish it were.