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Karl Rove: Rick Perry’s Extreme Views On Social Security Are ‘Toxic’ 7SEP11& Perry Campaign Repeats False Claim That Rick Perry Never Said Social Security Is Unconstitutional 8SEP11

CHRISTIAN rick perry doesn't see a conflict in lying about his position on Social Security...quite a testimony gov! Two pieces from ThinkProgress, one on karl rove's opinion on perry's postion on Social Security and the other covering perry's lies and political propaganda campaign on Social Security.

By Judd Legum on Sep 7, 2011 at 8:40 am

This morning on ABC, Karl Rove said Rick Perry’s extreme views on Social Security — detailed in his book “Fed Up!” — are “toxic” both in the Republican primary and the general election. Rove also dismissed Perry’s response thus far as “inadequate.”
In Perry’s book, released just nine months ago, he writes on page 48 that Social Security is “by far the best example” of a program “violently tossing aside any respect for our founding principles.” On page 50, he says that we have Social Security “at the expense of respect for the Constitution and limited government.”
Rove said Perry’s views amounted to calling for the end of Social Security and replacing it with a state-level program. At the end of August, Perry confirmed to ThinkProgress that he hasn’t “backed off anything in my book.” Karl Rove believes this will be a major problem:

STEPHANPOLOUS: And a lot of questions about how how Rick Perry will handle this test. So much talk about his books and what he’s written in his books, “Fed Up!” Questioning the 16th Amendment, which imposed the income tax. The 17th Amendment, direct election of Senators. And I think he’s gotten the most attention for what he said about Social Security, calling it a Ponzi scheme. Compares it to a “bad disease” that’s been “imposed on us for 70 years.” You know how much trouble that can be for a Republican candidate in a general election. So how does he handle it and must he disavow some of these statements in the book.
ROVE: What they’ve done thus far is, I think, inadequate. Which is to basically say, “look, we didn’t write the book with the presidential campaign in mind.” Well, okay, fine. But they are going to have to find a way to deal with these things. Because, as you say, they are toxic in a general election environment and they are also toxic in a Republican primary. If you say Social Security is a failure and ought to be replaced by a state-level program, then people are going to say: “What do you mean by that?” And make a judgment based on your answer to it. Each candidate has strengths. Each candidate also has challenges. This, for Governor Perry is his challenge. Now he’s got formidable strengths. But this is his biggest challenge.

Perry Campaign Repeats False Claim That Rick Perry Never Said Social Security Is Unconstitutional

By Ian Millhiser and Scott Keyes 

ThinkProgress filed this report from the Republican presidential debate in Simi Valley, California.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) just doesn’t know what to do with his radical book arguing that Social Security and Medicare are unconstitutional. The Perry campaign has alternatively embraced the book, distanced itself from it, run away from voters asking him about it, and misrepresented what it says.
ThinkProgress’ Scott Keyes caught up with Rick Perry’s campaign manager yesterday, and learned that Team Perry is back to simply not telling the truth about what their candidate believes:

KEYES: Does the governor still think that Social Security exists at the expense of the Constitution?
PERRY SPOX: In the book he never said — he didn’t say it was unconstitutional. Is that what you’re getting at?
KEYES: Well, just that he wrote that Social Security exists at the expense of the Constitution.
PERRY SPOX: He believes Social Security is a Ponzi scheme and that we’ve got to address it. We’re starting a national conversation.

Watch it:
http://youtu.be/ywSODjhLslI

For the record, here is the passage in Fed Up! where Rick Perry says that Social Security is unconstitutional:

There is no ambiguity in this passage. Nor is there ambiguity in a subsequent interview where Perry reiterated his belief that Social Security and Medicare violate the Constitution:

I don’t think our founding fathers when they were putting the term “general welfare” in [the Constitution] were thinking about a federally operated program of pensions nor a federally operated program of health care. What they clearly said was that those were issues that the states need to address. Not the federal government. I stand very clear on that.

Simply put, the Perry campaign needs to stop misrepresenting what their candidate believes.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/09/08/314650/perry-campaign-repeats-false-claim-that-rick-perry-never-said-social-security-is-unconstitutional/

Rick Perry: GOP Is Too Timid To Call Social Security A Ponzi Scheme from HUFFPOST 8NOV10

rick perry ( r TX) continues his tea-bagger campaign against Social Security with his outrageous claim that the program is a ponzi scheme. He has the right to his opinion, but he also has to be recognized as a real threat to the Social Security program, and we all need to be vigilant in the fight to protect Social Security from people like him. From HuffPost


WASHINGTON -- The fault lines of the next major policy debate are beginning to emerge as Texas Governor Rick Perry called out Republicans for refusing to label Social Security a "Ponzi scheme."
Speaking at the conservative Heritage Foundation to promote his new book, "Fed Up! Our Fight to Save America from Washington," the Texas Republican said that he had a tete-a-tete with presumptive Speaker John Boehner on Saturday. Over a couple of hours, the two touched base on the election results and upcoming legislative priorities. Top of the list, Perry said, was Social Security reform and the need to move oversight of the entitlement program away from the federal government and to the states.
"There have been a lot of political figures, totally and absolutely afraid to talk about [the fact] that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme," said Perry. "My eldest child is 27, my baby is 24 and they know, they know that Social Security is not going to be there for them. So let's talk about it. What are some of the options out there? And I think that is one of the great roles that governors can play, leading that conversation. Many of us would like to be in charge of those pension programs."
"The message from John Boehner is very clear, that he was listening Tuesday night and that finding the solutions to the challenges that face us as a country emanate from the states," he added.
Traversing the country to promote his book, Perry has driven a lot of speculation about a possible presidential bid. In that regard, bluntly calling out Republican lawmakers for their timidity on Social Security would seem like an effort to set the bar for other Republican White House aspirants. The facts are, of course, a bit fuzzy. Social Security can pay full benefits until 2037 and about 80% benefits indefinitely after. But policy minutiae isn't really Perry's point.
The governor, fresh off winning a third term in office, offered a customary dismissal of any 2012 talk, though in a rather counterintuitive way. He cited the book as evidence that he wouldn't fare well in a campaign for the White House -- "If you need a reason, Exhibit A, that I'm not running for the presidency is, I wrote this book."
But if he personally is keeping 2012 at arm's distance, he isn't shy about weighing in on the prospects of other potential candidates.

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