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In reply to the discussion: House GOP campaign chief: Obama budget ‘shocking attack on seniors’ [View all]Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)He will have to actively and forcefully walk it back and somehow convince the public that not only has he "evolved" on the issue, but now believes it is our party's duty to protect us from such 1%er think tank invented schemes to cut our earned benefits; That our party should work instead to expand SS and Medicare.
Nothing less than a full road to Damascus conversion can turn this around in our favor. That is the only way now to retake the house and learn to be the majority party in the Senate. He can deep six it, and pr it, but the best that will do is keep the status quo in the House and the Senate, no net gain or loss.
Just having been the one to suggest it, even if he removes it from his proposals, with make fodder for hundreds of scare the elderly commercials.
The third rail is a dangerous thing to piss on, you can get electrocuted that way.