Karl Rove slammed GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry on ABC’s Good Morning America on Wednesday, calling his views on Social Security “toxic.”
In Perry’s book Fed Up!, which was released less than a year ago, he described Social Security as a “Ponzi scheme” and a “failure” that exists “at the expense of respect for the Constitution and limited government.”
In August, Perry told the Center for American Progress's blog ThinkProgress that he hasn’t “backed off anything in my book”--a stance that Rove, who served as deputy chief of staff and senior adviser to President George W. Bush, says is “inadequate.”
Such views, Rove said, are “toxic in a general-election environment, and they are also toxic in a Republican primary.”
“And if you say Social Security is a failure and ought to be replaced by a state-level program, then people are going to say, ‘What do you mean by that?’ and make a judgment based on your answer to it,” he added.
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