The first step is, of course, to make sure we all forget Romney ever existed.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and other likely 2016 GOP presidential candidates are sounding populist themes in battleground states, trying to distance themselves from Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign.
Cruz, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) have been reaching out to working-class voters as they visit states like Iowa and New Hampshire, in the belief that Romney's bid fell short because he did not try hard enough to win over that segment of the voting public. ...TheHill
I'm not so sure we -- that is to say, "those people" -- are so willing to separate Rand Paul, Rich Santorum, and (above all!) Ted Cruz (for cryin' out loud!) from Mitt Romney.
Cruz says Romney’s campaign message should have been more inclusive of people on the lower rungs of the economic ladder.
“Every policy we think about, we talk about should focus like a laser on opportunity, on easing the means of assent up the economic ladder — on how it impacts the least well off among us,” he told conservative activists at the Family Leadership Summit. ...TheHill
It's pretty clear that nothing much will change in the run-up to '16: Republicans are still convinced that they can talk their way out of trouble. We know where that has taken them. Maybe someday they'll come to realize that it's what they are doing that's making all of us "those people" so unforgiving.
