people and big tax hikes for everyone else. so tanking rick perry has all of a sudden this week got himself some old school establishment republican staff like mitt romney has and got himself a flat tax sort of like herman cain has. but when time is short and you are really tanking and really desperate, a kitchen sink strategy really does mean trying everything all at once. and so from the flash in the pan candidacy of donald trump, the reality tv person, tanking rick perry is also now going with questioning the president s birth certificate. seriously. raising the birth certificate issue in parade magazine this weekend and then doubling down on the birth certificate thing in an interview with john harwood at cnbc. mitt romney after the president released his birth certificate earlier this year said that issue s done and settled. i accept it. you chose to keep it alive in your interview with parade magazine over the weekend.
the flat tax. 15%. not exclude those making over $500,000 because he thinks they could put more in the economy. is this a battle on substance of the tax plans in the republican party? finally. this is something i would have expected the republicans to have been doing a long time ago. this is where republicans have a built-in advantage on democrats. they want to lower taxes and simplify the system. but virtually everybody finds it appealing. this is something republicans should have done a long time ago. today, perry was asked about an interview that started from a parade magazine interview where he was asked about the birth certificate issue. this is what he said to cnbc. take a listen. a good issue to keep alive. donald has to have fun.
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is nafta, get off the birth certificate issue. why don t you? because, you know what? three weeks ago when i started, i thought he was probably born in this country. and now i really have a much bigger doubt. grandmother said very plainly, he was born in kenya until the handlers went cray crazy and then 60 seconds later, she maybe came up with a different answer, but nobody heard it. what are you doing specifically? i am looking into it very seriously. he said, quote, they cannot believe what they are finding. let s see what happens. that s none of your business right now. we are going to see what happens. have they found anything? we are going to see what happens. what have they done? we are going to see what happens. when i was asked to do this speech today for a friend of mine, he said it was going to be in a little auditorium with 250 people. what happened? [cheers and applause]
jobs and the mexico which is nafta get off the birth certificate issue. why don t you? three weeks ago when i started. i thought he was probably born in this country. now i have a much bigger doubt than i did before. his grandmother said plainly he was in kenya, until the handlers went crazy and 60 seconds later she maybe came up with a different answer and nobody really heard. greta: what are you doing specifically? i m looking into it seriously. you said they cannot believe what they are finding. we ll see was. what are they finding? that s none of your business now. have they found anything? we are going to see was? what have they don t? we are going to see was. when i was asked to do the speech today for a friend of mine. he said it was going to be in a little auditorium with 250 people, what happened? what happened?