Sorry, I didn't realize with a majority I'd have to choose. So what's important to you?
Because the only reason, the only reason that Richard Shelby was able to defeat Jeremiah Denton back in 86 is because Denton had voted for the Reagan SS plan, and that formed pretty much the entire basis of the Shelby campaign that year.
It's not 1986.
Speaking of which, do you know who said this:
There are cynics who say that a party platform is something that no one bothers to read and it doesn't very often amount to much.
Whether it is different this time than it has ever been before, I believe the Republican Party has a platform that is a banner of bold, unmistakable colors, with no pastel shades.
The Republicans did not win a majority by saying to America
"Elect Republicans, and we will privatize Social Security", because we both know that as far as 2005 goes, it's political suicide. We won the election of 2004 because of the WOT and character issues.
I'm not saying it will be this way in 2015, but today, it still is, and this is not the time to give the Democrats an issue to use against us.
And there are many Republicans, like Shelby, who are never going to give in on this issue, not until numbers become more favorable.