Delusion's not just a river - oh, wait

Heh(via Steve Gilliard):

Even before he was President, George W. Bush sailed against the wind on Social Security. This time, he's outdone himself.

During the 2000 campaign, then-Texas Gov. Bush overruled his horrified political handlers and insisted on pressing for Social Security privatization - particularly when speaking to Florida's millions of geriatric voters.

To this day, Bush adamantly believes the issue was a political plus for him in Florida - a contention considered pollyannaish by many of his closest aides.

Some, in fact, say if he had kept quiet about tinkering with the most sacred of all domestic political cows, Bush would have won the Sunshine State easily, instead of needing the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold his 537-vote victory.

"He still thinks it helped him then," a senior Bush political adviser remembered. "We all still think he's crazy.

Gilliard has more, and I don't have much to add to it. He's right to think it's a big GOP gamble with the future of the country and for the future. A gamble, it seems, that Bush is dragging reluctant members of the GOP to take.