[Cincinatus' Wife]

Sept 7, 2011: 4 Minute YouTube VIDEO Clip: Perry Fires At Rove & Romney: Social Security Is A "Ponzi Scheme" And A "Monstrous Lie"

Perry Campaign: Remember When Romney Compared Social Security to a Criminal Enterprise? [quote from Romney's book] " What would happen to the bankers responsible for misusing the money? They would go to jail. But what has happened to the people responsible for the looming bankruptcy of Social Security? They keep returning to Congress every two years.” [end quote]

Did Perry Blow It on Social Security? (Marco Rubio and Ron Johnson certainly didn't)There is a brand of Republican who looks at President Obama’s vulnerability on the economy and says, “Go for it!” They argue that the overriding issue of the campaign should be jobs — and that everything else should be a distant second.

There is another kind of Republican who sees the election of 2012 as a tipping point for the nation — a do-or-die moment when we will either pull back from the precipice of debt and national decline or fall off the edge. This second brand of Republican is hoping that a candidate will emerge who can lay before the American people the nature of the challenge we face in a direct and forthright way. If a campaign is run and won on the need to reform our obese government, the new president will have a mandate to take the necessary steps once in office.

After Wednesday’s Republican debate, it seems that Mitt Romney represents the first group, and Rick Perry stands for the second. ………………”

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Rick Perry’s Air War (with the EPA)...........>>>Texas alone opted for the unfriendly approach. It’s the only state that did not issue a plan for compliance—and Perry has made it clear that Texas has no intention of complying. The move was a blatant slap to the Obama administration—and once again gave Perry the national spotlight. Defying the climate rules offered him the perfect opportunity to loudly decry the science of global warming—which in his book Fed Up! he calls a “contrived phony mess that is falling apart under its own weight”—and to slam EPA as a “rogue agency” with an “activist mind-set” that has “targeted Texas.” Such rhetoric is viral catnip to the tea party voters who could help catapult Perry to the 2012 presidential nomination.<<<..............

Metro - Carolyn and Ron Agnew, center, of Pflugerville, wait for Governor Rick Perry's arrival during the Rick Perry Welcome Home Rally at Abel's on the Lake in Austin on Saturday, August 20, 2011. LISA KRANTZ/lkrantz@express-news.net

In Texas Schools, Perry Shuns Federal Influence ………>>>When Secretary of Education Arne Duncan jabbed Mr. Perry on public schools in mid-August, it was only the latest skirmish between the governor and the Obama administration since late 2009, when Mr. Perry announced that the state would not sign on to common core-curriculum standards.<<<...

The Left is signaling that they hope a President Perry will fix education and get the inner cities out from under the impossible mess they've created.

Will Rick Perry Unravel the Strange Consensus on Public Education?

Trial lawyers prep for war on Perry America’s trial lawyers are getting ready to make the case against one of their biggest targets in years: Texas Gov. Rick Perry.

Among litigators, there is no presidential candidate who inspires the same level of hatred – and fear – as Perry, an avowed opponent of the plaintiffs’ bar who has presided over several rounds of tort reform as governor.

And if Perry ends up as the Republican nominee for president, deep-pocketed trial lawyers intend to play a central role in the campaign to defeat him.

That’s a potential financial boon to a president who has unsettled trial lawyers with his own rhetorical gestures in the direction of tort reform. A general election pitting Barack Obama and Perry could turn otherwise apathetic trial lawyers into a phalanx of pro-Obama bundlers and super PAC donors. …..”

[vicar7]

Unforced error by Rick now he has to travel around defending himself instead of attacking the Obama agenda.

[Dudoight]

A straight shooter always has more respect than a mealy mouthed blathering obfuscator.

[shield]

Oh yes, great article...and it is right on!!!

[SoJoCo]

Of course Perry did NOT say he wanted to "abolish" Social Security, he simply called it what it is. It’s a classic Ponzi Scheme because money from the last investors must be used to pay the first investors

So it's a Ponzi scheme and by any measure a total failure but he doesn't want to abolish it?

[samtheman]

It’s an excellent article. Everyone should read it. Read the whole thing.

[McGruff]

Perry on Social Security: They also said Reagan was too blunt

It's a streeeetch to see how this article backs up the title.

[Lady Lucky]

Your Perry photo reminds me of the famed Erik Estrada image.

[the invisib1e hand]

Idunno...my gut tells me it's too early to play the "Reagan" card.

Better get advice about that, sir.

[no dems]

OK. HERE'S THE BOTTOM LINE: Rick did not do well in his first Debate Wednesday night. It's still early but I say, if he doesn't do well in the other Debates in September, he might be "gone". I, as were the people in the Frank Luntz Focus Group on Hannity the other night, was disappointed in Perry's Debate Performance. He was not "forceful" and assertive. He seemed, as so many people have said, unprepared for that Debate. Like I say, if he doesn't do better by the end of this month (September), people are going to take a second look at Bachmann, Gingrich, Cain and Santorum. That will be enough to divide the Conservative vote and propel Mittens back into "front-runner" status until the field is winnowed out some. Come on Rick; get your stuff together.