Rick Perry is featured in this week’s TIME magazine and although the full article is behind a subscription paywall, a portion of the interview is online.
Here is what Perry had to say about his unapologetic rhetoric regarding Social Security:
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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.
