“ As bad as Scott’s SS tactical blunder was”
Proposing to sunset Social Security isn’t a tactical blunder. It’s a massive failure on policy and philosophy. His plan didn’t call for sunsetting military spending. He considers that too important to tinker with. But by calling for sun setting Social Security he was teiingvthe vast numbers of Americans who depend on that program that it isn’t important to him and the GOP. As Trump said in the 2016 primaries, the Republicans have to stop criticizing and undermining social Sefurity or they’ll never win again.
If Scott had not mentioned SS it would not have mad that much difference. The #1 problem is the cheating. Fla proved that. To your point, SS is untouchable. The GOP cannot even talk about it, that’s just a fact. I remember when Bush floated the idea of letting younger workers voluntarily take a small portion and invest it how they wished. The rats pounced and said he wanted to “gut Social Security”.
MSM piled on with “how come you want to destroy SS” type of questions.