Perry, Romney, and social security

The predictable back and forth:



Weigel liveblogged the whole debate, and wrote:

Here is where the benefits and risks of the Tea Party audience come in. All Perry needs to say, to win the Social Security exchange -- for now -- is that Romney is slavishly defending the New Deal. "If what you're trying to say is that in the 30s and 40s," he says, "the federal government made all the right decisions, I'm going to disagree with you." Brilliant in the GOP primary. Is challenging every element of the New Deal brilliant in a general election? More than it used to be...