Perry campaign distances him from book’s call for repeal of 16th Amendment - Greg Sargent

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/perry-campaign-distances-him-from-books-call-for-repeal-of-16th-amendment/2011/03/03/gIQA9gkFZJ_blog.html

This is the second time the Perry camp has distanced him from his own book’s assertions. Yesterday the campaign clarified that his book’s suggestion that Social Security might be unconstitutional did not reflect Perry’s current views or his prescription for the program’s future.

A couple of observations:
1) This book was essentially Rick Perry's policy handbook for his presidential run. Rick Perry may have only been officially running for president for a few weeks, but in reality he has been running since the summer of 2010. This book, released in a more radical atmosphere, was his case to be elected president.
2) The book is only nine months old. This was not something he wrote in college that he can disavow as a misguided youth. He literally just wrote it.

Famously, he recenly stuffed a popover in his mouth at a New Hampshire bakery when asked about his book's solution for Social Security, pleading that he could not answer because his mouth was full. I hope for his sake they serve popovers at the debates.