Well, I have to give him credit for that. It is more of an admission than we are ever likely to hear from Romney on his health care bill.
If Perry would now lay out a full accounting of every penny that Merck ever put into any of his campaigns I might feel better about him.
“I signed an executive order that allowed for an opt-out, but the fact of the matter is I didn’t do my research well enough to understand that we needed to have a substantial conversation with our citizenry,” he said. “I hate cancer. Let me tell you, as a son who has a mother and father who are both cancer survivors.”