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Tea party telephone call, i can't be for tax cuts for rich people. that's a dead loser. you can't start there. if you give up everything you think you're going to lose to obama, why are you running? >> it's an interesting point that former speaker gingrich makes which is essentially that do you want to elect someone who is more in the middle or someone who is taking positions that are much more core republican, tea party beliefs, who might not be able to win. what matte erters more? >> i think electability comes from an authenticity. and theç principle we shouldn' choose certain groups and p...

Back on the class warfare line today. i think they're seeing the same polls that everyone else sees. they know that the public is on the president's side on the taxation issues. there were other areas to go at, i think, in the specificity of what the president released today for the republicans to maybe try to maneuver, but it seems to me that they fell into the president's trap perfectly since they're so reflexive on taxation that any mention of a change of taxes sent them right into class warfare mode. >> i think it was a trap. the interesting thing, lawrence, is that you had these polls sho...

Fortune 500 companies you would have enough money to run this country into june. raising taxes is not the way out. if the rich want to pay more, they can pay it. write the check. the president is in class warfare mode. the top 1 percent of income earners, about $375,000 and up earn almost 30 percent of the income and they pay about 40 percent of all of the income taxes. if you tax them anymore they will reduce their economic activity, that costs jobs and slows down our economy. >>dave: that frames the budget debate moving forward. you for getting up early in atlanta for us. coming up, unbeliev...

And lower tax rates than they faced in 50 years. what the president is saying is, americans are on their backs. most americans are either jobless or afraid of losing their jobs or their wages are going down. they can't make ends meet. you at the top, you have got to play your part. enough of this. and i think most americans say yes, that is a moral argument that i agree with. >> it's my sense the republicans were so unready to deal with the specifics of the president's proposal that they just fell back on the class warfare line today. i think they're seeing the same polls that everyone else se...