i stand very clear on that." very clear in rick perry land, so we're doing this state by state. alabama, you can hand out vouchers for cat food and human portions, massachusetts, you can continue on with pensions for seniors and universal health care, as long as you can afford it, even though it's always been a national safety net before now, today we got a hint of the rick perry who wants to live in the white house has begun to realize that his ideas on these things might not be all that popular. at the iowa state fair, ben smith from politico.com asked perry about his not that old insistence that social security should be abolished federally so the states can take it over. any other delusion is unconstitutional exclamation point. that's his position as of less than a year ago in his all-caps titled book. but when asked about it today all of a sudden governor rick perry did not sound so rick perry about it anymore. >> there's time for having a conversation with the country