You can see the attack ads coming already: the GOP’s new presidential frontrunner, Rick Perry, hates Social Security, the Department of Homeland Security and the Supreme Court, and even the 16th and 17th Amendments of the Constitution — or at least that’s what his book, “Fed Up!” seems to suggest. Perry even claimed it as proof that he didn’t intend to run for president when it was published last November.
But it might cause the Texas governor problems as he tries to defend saying that Social Security is a “Ponzi scheme” and a “monstrous lie,” or that the direct election of senators is a bad idea. Perry has already backtracked somewhat from the positions he took in his book, with communications director, Ray Sullivan calling it “a look back, not a path forward,” and describing it as “a review and critique of 50 years of federal excesses, not in any way as a 2012 campaign blueprint or manifesto.”
But Perry has been billing his book as just that, just two weeks ago telling Iowa voters to pick up a copy and read it when asked what he’d do to fix entitlement programs.
