the contours of the race, forever. and we don t really know who is responsible for that timing. krystal, the best move. the best move, goes to the point about immigration, the president, when he gave a press conference saying he would halt deportations on young undocumented immigrants. it really trapped mitt romney over there on the right, in self-deportation rick perry land. he was not able to strike a more reasonable position on immigration, because the president basically cut him off at the pass. so i think that was a very smart strategic move. all right, steve. i ll look at the senate level, the smartest move, mccaskill s move, saying you know what i think i want to run against todd akin, and she
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
contender, rick perry was frank about his opinions on programs such as social security and medicare. last week, the daily beast dredged up an interview done last fall, things that didn t seem interesting enough to make the first cut of the interview before he was running for president, that s how these things go, context is everything. but in new context of him running for president, here s what he had to say, i don t think our founding fathers, when they were thinking about a federally-operated program of mentions, nor a federally-operated program of health care. they said those were issues that the states needed to address, not the federal government. i stand very clear on that. very clear, in rick perry land, we re doing this state-by-state. alabama, you can hand out vouchers for cat food and human portions, massachusetts, you can
tossing aside the principles of our nation, at least before he officially became a presidential contender, rick perry was frank about his opinions on programs such as social security and medicare. last week, the daily beast dredged up an interview done last fall, things that didn t seem interesting enough to make the first cut of the interview before he was running for president, that s how these things go, context is everything. but in new context of him running for president, here s what he had to say, i don t think our founding fathers, when they were thinking about a federally-operated program of mentions, nor a federally-operated program of health care. they said those were issues that the states needed to address, not the federal government. i stand very clear on that. very clear, in rick perry land, we re doing this state-by-state.
and the timing of that changed the contours of the race, forever. and we don t really know who is responsible for that timing. krytal, the best move. the best move, goes to the point about immigration, the president, when he gave a press conference saying he would halt deportations on young undocumented immigrants. it really trapped mitt romney over there on the right, in self-deportation rick perry land. he was not able to strike a more reasonable position on immigration, because the president basically cut him off at the pass. so i think that was a very smart strategic move. all right, steve. i ll look at the senate level, the smartest move, mccaskill s move, saying you know what i think i want to run against todd aiken, and she