Mitt Romney wants Rick Perry disqualified from GOP race

Mitt Romney’s adviser, Stuart Stevens says

Ricky Perry’s wish to abolish Social Security

is a ‘disqualifying position’

Using an adviser as a mouthpiece, under pressure from a surging Rick Perry, Mitt Romney wants the Texas governor kicked out of the race for the White House.

During Wednesday night’s GOP presidential debate in Simi Valley, California, Perry repeated his pronouncement that Social Security is both a “Ponzi scheme” and a “monstrous lie.” This follows up on Perry’s own book, in which he says the popular retirement program is unconstitutional and “violently tosses aside any respect for our founding principles.”

After the debate top Romney aide Stuart Stevens said this:

STEVENS: We’re talking about every House candidate that runs, every Senate candidate that runs, would have to run on the Perry plan to kill Social Security. We might as well just admit it now that Nancy Pelosi is going to become Speaker again and the Senate we’ll never get. It’s a position that, in his book he argues for and reasons out well, it’s just a position the vast majority of Americans don’t agree with. We’re talking about a president who will abolish Social Security. It’s not a question of how it’s funded, it’s a disqualifying position.



