Oh, Rick Perry. Don't Ever Change.

There is a lot of good stuff (where "good stuff" means terrifyingly stupid stuff) in this interview with Rick Perry at Time, but this is definitely my favorite:

Now that you've been in the race for while, do you feel pressure to temper some of your rhetoric, like calling the Obama administration socialist?

No, I still believe they are socialist. Their policies prove that almost daily. Look, when all the answers emanate from Washington D.C., one size fits all, whether it's education policy or whether it's healthcare policy, that is, on its face, socialism.

1. Rick Perry has no idea what socialism means. 2. If only!

[H/T to Steve Benen.]