Rick Perry: Just because I wrote a book calling for privatizing Social Security doesn’t mean I’m for privatizing Social Security.

Also, the Perry campaign won’t say whether he still favors repealing the 16th Amendment, which sanctified the income tax, as he proposed in the book.

Former moderate GOP Rep. (maybe the only genuinely moderate GOP rep left) Chris Shays says he’s going to run for Joe Lieberman’s seat in 2012.

Remember, Lieberman has announced he’s retiring from the Senate at the end of this term, making it an open seat.

Does Wisconsin’s new GOP-backed voter ID law violate the state constitution?