The payroll tax debate cost us our @ss. Obama took the class warfare high grounda and we have been pissing up a rope ever since. Whenever Obama makes the public think republicans are not for tax cuts and he is we are in a world of hurt. Our issue is getting the right nmessage out there in simple clear terms. No one does this better than Rubio and he isn’t running.
What is killing us is the presence of the destroyer, Mitt Romney, the man Rubio backed in Florida during that crucial week.
Romney has a damping effect on conservatism and the Republican party, he did it in Massachusetts (decimating the state party and losing the Governor’s seat ever since), he smothered our field in 2007 by making it known that he was going to dominate fund raising, command a huge organization, and spend record amounts in the primaries.
The only reason that we haven’t been swallowed up entirely, is because of that debate showing by Newt, it caused a big crack in the Romney machine and allowed Newt, and now Santorum to break into his columns and disrupt his march.