Bachmann supported Carter to keep Reagan out. What is your point. At least Perry had an excuse. He was a politician in the south. Remember the Solid South. It can be noted that he switched parties immediately after that. Believe it or not, Algore was the most Conservative Rat running that year. He wasn’t the crazy Communist he is today. Pro Life and do you remember Tippers record labels? 1988 was a long time ago. I just keep going back to this from 2009.
“He walks the walk of a true conservative,” [Sarah] Palin writes. “And he sticks by his guns — and you know how I feel about guns.”
Man, really? In 1976 Bachmann worked for and voted for the candidate that many conservatives supported, Carter, and the race was against the pro-choice, Watergate contaminated Ford (not Reagan).
When Reagan was running for President in 1980, Bachmann worked for his campaign and of course voted for him.
Bachmann made the famously common, Carter to Reagan switch in 1980, Perry didn't, in fact, in 1984 he ran for office as a Democrat, and in 1988 supported Democrat Al Gore to replace President Reagan.
Last election while we were running the Giuliani thread here, Rick Perry was endorsing him.
From Al Gore, to Rudy Giuliani in two decades, those are oddly consistent Presidential bookends for the potential "leader of the conservative movement".
It gives me a bit of the heebie jeebies to know Perry was his Texas campaign manager in 1988, but it's not a deal killer for me as long as Perry truly has become conservative.
That being said, please don't pretend Gore was any kind of conservative, it doesn't help to believe a fairy tale.