Rick Perry has taken a lot of flak over his possibly bid-killing book, “Fed Up.” Now the Texas governor is taking a leaf out of Mitt Romney’s playbook, and trying to put the focus on Romney’s own tome, “No Apologies.” Perry’s camp accuses the former Massachusetts governor of altering passages in later editions of his book to remove some kind words for the 2009 stimulus package.In the 2010 version of “No Apology: The Case For American Greatness,” Romney offered up some faint praise for the stimulus, writing that “The “all-Democrat” stimulus that was passed in early 2009 will accelerate the timing of the start of the recovery.” In the 2011 paperback edition, however, Romney writes that it was “failure.” The Perry campaign, which has been trying hard this week to revive the vintage “flip-flopper” label that dogged Romney in 2008, highlighted the changes in a web video.
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