At last week’s Reagan Library Republican presidential debate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney cast his lot with decades of Democratic demagogues and attacked Texas Gov. Rick Perry for speaking the truth about Social Security. The Romney campaign made it clear before, during, and after the debate that Perry’s accurate description of Social Security as a “Ponzi scheme” should disqualify him from the race. The George Soros funded Center for American Progress quickly echoed the Romney campaign’s message.

Now it appears that Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., wants to join Romnney and his new liberal allies in attacking Perry on entitlement spending. An anonymous Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., aide tells The Examiner‘s Byron York: “Clearly she feels differently about the value of Social Security than Gov. Perry does. She strongly disagrees with his position on that, and it’s clearly not something that’s going to sit well with the people of Florida and Iowa and South Carolina and many of the early states, where there is a large population of seniors who rely heavily on Social Security. For [Perry] to scare them is wrong.”