I know that Barry Goldwater used to oppose the CRM because he believed it should be a state issue. You could split hairs on that all day long. I generally believe also that social welfare programs like SS are best moved out of the federal government’s control and put at the state level, although it’s probably impossible at this point to remove things like that because they’re so completely entrenched.
Rand already has basically in hand a winning coalition of conservatives and honest liberals that are absolutely won over with his “simple and creative” policies on fiscal issues and civil liberties. What he needs to do to win is basically to stay as far away as possible from ideologically pure declarations about non-issues when he is clueless and tongue-tied about the real-world effects of implementing such proposals.