The Perry campaign blasts out a pretty clean hit on Mitt Romney:
However, in his book “No Apology: The Case For American Greatness”, which was published just last year, Romney compared those managing Social Security to criminals, saying:
“Let’s look at what would happen if someone in the private sector did a similar thing. Suppose two grandparents created a trust fund, appointed a bank as trustee, and instructed the bank to invest the proceeds of the trust fund so as to provide for their grandchildren’s education. Suppose further that the bank used the proceeds for its own purposes, so that when the grandchildren turned eighteen, there was no money for them to go to college. 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.”
Even better, the Perry campaign points out that Romney said just two weeks ago that he didn’t know of a single Republican who actually wants to cut Social Security or Medicare for people in or near retirement:
Sure, Perry could really learn to deliver his message on entitlement reform more tactfully, but it’s hard to see how Romney’s hypocritical demagoguery is going to help him win the nomination.
