You’re applying today’s conservative logic to a decision made in 1988 when Texas was controlled by Democrats and had been for decades. Gore was the most conservative Democrat at that time. He was pro-life, pro-guns, pro-defense, and pro-tobacco. Gore’s primary campaign didn’t succeed because he was too conservative to win the Dem nomination. Perry switched parties shortly after that campaign when he realized that his values were a better fit with the Republican platform than with the Democratic platform, which was being taken over by the hard-core, extreme-left nutcases.
Al Gore was a liberal, with an ACU rating varying from 6 to 9, you cannot convince us that Al Gore was the liberal Democrat to replace President Reagan just as we were on the verge of winning the Cold War.
In 1980 Reagan won Texas with 55%, in 1984 Reagan won 64% of the Texas vote, in 1988 Bush won 56% of the state.
Perry switched parties when he saw the writing on the wall.
“Dallas Billionaire Charles Wyly Was Killed in a Traffic Accident in Aspen This Morning”
By Robert WilonskySun., Aug. 7 2011 at 8:05 PM
(Big Republican donor)
Who was the other driver in the black SUV?
http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2011/08/dallas_billionaire_charles_wyl.php