He is the decider; he is decisive and he is declaring war on social security:
There may be someone who is an established Republican who circulates in the cocktail circuit that would find some of my rhetoric to be inflammatory or what have you, but I’m really talking to the American citizen out there. I think American citizens are just tired of this political correctness and politicians who are tiptoeing around important issues. They want a decisive leader. I’m comfortable that the rhetoric I have used was both descriptive and spot on. Calling Social Security a Ponzi scheme has been used for years. I don’t think people should be surprised that terminology would be used.
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I don’t get particularly concerned that I need to back off from my factual statement that Social Security, as it is structured today, is broken. If you want to call it a Ponzi scheme, if you want to say it’s a criminal enterprise, if you just want to say it’s broken –they all get to the same point. We need, as a country, to have an adult conversation. Don’t try to scare the senior citizens and those who are on Social Security that it’s somehow going to go away with the mean, old heartless Republican.
Time Magazine
And he uses the S word:
Now that you’ve been in the race for while, do you feel pressure to temper some of your rhetoric, like calling the Obama administration socialist?
No, I still believe they are socialist. Their policies prove that almost daily. Look, when all the answers emanate from Washington D.C., one size fits all, whether it’s education policy or whether it’s healthcare policy, that is, on its face, socialism.
Time Magazine
If only, says the left.
Worse than Bush II. Perry is a gift to President Obama. In a bad economy, the President can defeat Perry. And Rs love this red meat from a southerner.
There is a risk, but I think Obama is better than Carter in campaigning and Perry is no Reagan. It will be hell if Perry wins, and that may be what we need to unite.
How many seniors will like Perry's talk? And they vote.
It is key that this President and the Democratic Party defend the programs they created: Social Security and Medicare (also medicaid).
Social security seems to be off the table for the Obama submission to the Super Committee. So too should be raising the Medicare age.
This is a war we can and must win.