[Defiant]

Rove is an anvil on the GOP’s back.

[Breto]

I don’t think his views on SS are toxic. I do think his views on immigration are. but then Perry and Rove are of one mind on open borders.

[Paladin2]

Tokyo’s RINO views toxic to GOP.

[mojito]

Rove has become an attention whore for the MSM, who book him because they know that he’ll slam conservative candidates.

Shut up Karl, and go write your memoirs.

[sauropod]

Tokyo Rove is at it again (and I don’t like Rick Perry).

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

The pot calling the kettle black.

[Tallguy]

...Social Security is a “Ponzi scheme,” a “failure,” “something we have been forced to accept for more than 70 years now,” and one of many New Deal programs that have “never died, and like a bad disease, they have spread.”

I'm struck by the fact that Soviet Communism collapsed in exactly that time frame (70 years).

[Bigun]

I could care less what Karl Rove thinks about anything!

Everyone’s been yelling “truth, truth, tell me the truth” at politicians for years but, according to Rove, those same people will be upset by one who actually does that! I don’t think so!

[Grunthor]

The BEST thing the GOP can do about Social Security is nothing. It will go broke, the GOP will be proven to have been correct all along.

[Vaduz]

Republicans “can blow it,” Rove said, by “having a candidate who could not appeal to the swing voters in this election who are conservative minded independents, ****latinos***** and white working class voters.
Gee wonder what’s on Roves mind?.

[risen_feenix]

You know you’re onto something good with Karl Rove is opposed to you.

It’s well known that Bush and Rove had problems with Perry. Rove is just keeping the grudge going.

[newzjunkey]

Let's see, Mr. Rove... Ponzi schemes give early investors the biggest return for the smallest investment and they're paid off using new investor's money until eventually it collapses when there aren't enough new investors to make the payments.

Social Security started with benefits for people who hadn't paid in all their lives and 16 workers to 1 recipient. Payments are made using taxes paid by existing workers. We're now at 3 (almost 2) workers to 1 recipient.

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...

[DrC]

Perry should just point to a living, breathing example of an alternative to SS that works http://www.forbes.com/sites/merrillmatthews/2011/05/12/how-three-texas-counties-created-personal-social-security-accounts-and-prospered/ and then ask his critics why they favor retirees getting only half the income they might from a private alternative that inherently is vastly more safe and stable than the current Ponzi scheme which relies on participants trusting that Uncle Sam won’t raid the trust fund whenever federal revenues run short.

The economic risks to one’s lifetime rate of return on retirement savings that are inherent in a privatized system are vastly smaller than the political risks. Given how SS has been mismanaged over decades, who in their right mind would trust those same folks to pay out promised benefits decades from now?

[2nd Bn, 11th Mar]

He just keeps plopping turds like this into the punchbowl.

Rove has now reached liability status for the GOP.

[perfect_rovian_storm]

Rick Perry’s ‘views’ on Social Security aren’t toxic. The stark differences between the ‘views’ that Rick Perry the candidate have from the ACTIONS of Rick Perry the elected official are the problem. If I thought I could trust his words as a candidate, his ‘toxic views’ would be a huge plus. As it is, they all add up to a big nothingburger.

[TexasCajun]

Rove and The Bush Klan were staunch supports of Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, who tried and failed to unseat Perry during last year’s contentious Texas Republican gubernatorial primary.

[toddausauras]

What a freakin’ David Brooks Rove is now. Go to hell you loser you’re not a conservative! What’s with guys like him and Scarborough?

[tnlibertarian]

Okay cousin Karl, if Social Security is not a failure, why not let people opt out? If it is such a success, people would love to participate. Why should a supposedly free society force workers into a government funded retirement plan against their will? The whole idea is anti-liberty. I’ll make you a deal. You can keep every penny of what I have contributed over the last twenty or so years. Take that pile of money in my ‘account’ and have a big party with it. Stop taking money from my paycheck and instruct my employer to send his ‘matching contribution’ to me. I’ll sign an agreement relinquishing any claim on future Social Security benefits. Offer this option to everyone and see what a wonderful success the people financially supporting this legalized theft think of it. As long as Medicare and Social Security exist, we are not a free people.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Hey, wait... I thought Perry was just a front for the Bush family. I think I read something like that on FR.

Or maybe Rove is saying things like this to make us THINK the Bushes don’t like Perry, and that secretly they love him to pieces.

I’m so confused.

[isthisnickcool]

Rove is an ugly old fart who is fat and out of shape. He is an attention hog with self esteem issues. I’m sure others than myself have noticed that the people who are slovenly or just damn ugly seem to be pissing in other people’s cheerios. Look at Pelosi, Hillary, Boxer, Frank and others who I believe are as ugly on the inside as they are on the outside. They hate themselves so they jack with us.

It is also in my opinion why the hate people like Palin, Bauchmann, Perry and others who take care of themselves and are both physically and mentally centered.