Perry-Romney Social Security Fight Explodes

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has relentlessly attacked Texas Gov. Rick Perry's position on Social Security over the past few weeks. Today Perry responded, accusing Romney of the worst sin of all — acting like a Democrat.

In debates, statements, and interviews, Romney has criticized Perry for calling the entitlement program a "Ponzi scheme," but a Perry spokesman claims Romney made the same comparison.

“Mitt Romney's own book compared Social Security to a criminal enterprise.  Now Mr. Romney is again sounding like a Democrat, distorting the truth and trying to scare senior citizens.  As he has so many times in the past, Mr. Romney seems to forget he's a Republican," Communications Director Ray Sullivan said. 

Romney's spokeswoman Andrea Saul fired back with a critique of Perry's jobs record, implying it is worse than President Barack Obama's, under the headline"Governor Sub-Zero: 

“In his campaign’s latest video, Governor Perry criticizes President Obama for an economy that added zero jobs in August, yet Texas added even fewer and has over a million people unemployed. This election is about choices – and voters will have the opportunity to choose between Mitt Romney, a conservative businessman, or Rick Perry, a career politician whose own state’s unemployment rate has doubled on his watch and is the worst in the region.”

As the polls tighten between the two candidates, expect tempers to continue to flare when the face off in tomorrow night's GOP debate in the must-win state of Florida.

Read the rest of the Perry statement below:

“Mr. Romney has been running for president full time for nearly five years, and has failed to issue a specific plan on Social Security.  Rick Perry and other conservatives are courageous enough to be honest about federal spending and entitlements, whether Mr. Romney and the liberals like it or not.

“Gov. Perry and other GOP leaders know Social Security must be fixed.  Gov. Perry has been clear that he will protect benefits for those at and nearing retirement, and work with citizens, experts and elected leaders to fix Social Security financing for future generations.”

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Cat Fight: Gawker And Fox Are At Each Others' Throats Over An Investigative Story

This morning, Fox broke away from Hurricane Irene coverage to discuss Gawker.

Fox says that Gawker, along with 7 other sites are "dead or dying." Blogger, MySpace, Bebo, Chatroulette, Digg, TypePad and Slashdot were also discussed.

"This popular gossip site's traffic has dropped 75 percent this year, according to Compete, and has wallowed in its own bad press over the years," Fox writes.

"Foster Kamer, a former Gawker writer, shared some insight on his former gig...“You’re scooping the muck from the sewer and holding it up in your hand and saying, ‘Look at this. Smell this.’”

Gawker says the bashing is preemptive. It says it has been working on a story that will expose one of Fox's anchors.

"Firstly, Gawker's traffic is not down 75% this year. This chart shows that we had 68.2 million pageviews as of August 24, as opposed to something just north of 40 million at the same time a year prior...Secondly: I [John Cook] have for several weeks been working on a story about a Fox News personality that Fox News really does not want published! Fox knows what the story is, because I've asked its PR department for comment (they refused)."

This isn't the first time Gawker and Fox have fought. Gawker previously wrote that Fox's News chief is a maniac, and Fox retorted that the site is a lousy joke.

Gawker is the high-brow gossip sheet covering media, entertainment, politics and technology.

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