WELL, IT WORKED FOR BUSH

Rick Perry is trying hard to give the impression that he's just another dumbass good ole boy who is "comfortable in his skin." (See here and here)  Also like Bush, he wants to privatize Social Security.  In his book Fed Up, Perry went much further:

In what is now the most infamous passage of Fed Up!, Perry compares Social Security to a "Ponzi scheme," calling it a "crumbling monument to the failure of the New Deal" that has "hoodwinked the American public" through deceptive accounting.

His attack on the Commerce Clause is nothing less than an attack on America since 1900:

Congress and the federal court system have overstepped the boundaries of the U.S. Constitution's Commerce Clause, which gives Congress the power to regulate trade between states and nations. This overreach, Perry argues, is "the basis for federal laws regulating the environment, regulating guns, protecting civil rights, establishing the massive programs of Medicare and Medicaid, creating national minimum wage laws, [and] establishing national labor laws."