[Fred]

Working toward a rino free America

A few RINO darts for good ole Perry

Perry to protect undocumented-immigrant tuition

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/special/07/legislature/4465044.html

Schwarzenegger, Perry, Napolitano, Richardson urge “comprehensive” immigration reform
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2763274/posts?page=1

Perry endorses Rudy Guiliani for president in 2008
http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/019691.html

Perry works toward increasing H1Bs...
http://www.globalmobilityreport.com/50226711/us_governors_seek_h1b_visa_increase.php

Governor Perry throws support behind H1Bs
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9776360-7.html

Perry opposes border fence
http://24ahead.com/blog/archives/006987.html

[Army Air Corps]

Uh, have they paid attention to Gov. Perry’s assault on the EPA?

[arrogantsob]

LoL, and Ronald Reagan was a supporter of FDR at one time. So what?

[RED SOUTH]

He supported Carter , Mondale & Dukakis. Supported Gore in 88 in democrat primaries. Perry was a real good democrat until the state started going red and Rove told him switch or die. And please , I don't want to hear how Reagan used to be a democrat. Perry was a democrat after LBJ's Great Society , Roe vs Wade & Jimmy Carter. Reagan became a republican way before any of this.

[mnehring]

In 1988 the ozone hole was the issue of the day, not global warming. This was also during the time algore was playing to the right. Remember all the RIAA decency hearings? Since then he has taken on the epa and gorebull full force.

[La Enchiladita]

Oh, please, Perry doesn’t get off that easy. Gore was always an enviro crusader and a liberal. Perry knew what he was and supported him, plain and simple.

[demshateGod]

I don’t think you can really call it flip flopping when it was over 20 years ago. I supported The Sex Pistols and Black Flag in 1988.

[cripplecreek]

Gov. Perry Announces TEF Investment in Solar Power Company

USTIN – Gov. Rick Perry today announced the state will invest $1 million through the Texas Enterprise Fund (TEF) in HelioVolt Corp. of Austin for the construction of a 125,000 square foot manufacturing facility and development space to test and produce the company’s thin-film solar power cells, which convert sunlight into electricity. The deal will create nearly 160 jobs and $62 million in capital investment.

HelioVolt Corp. puts off growth. Plant is ready but demand not there

After months of stealthy operations, solar cell maker HelioVolt Corp. has delayed by two years its job creation projections.

[rhombus]

So is Perry Romney in a cowboy hat? Who needs the bigger pass?

[Perdogg]

An article from Politico. I am sure it is fair. /sarc

I find it amazing conservatives on FR are now going to the Nation and Politico for hit pieces on Perry.

[VictoryGal]

Looks like I will face another election cycle where I can’t vote FOR my side. Perry and Romney are the ones the RINO machines want to install.

I will vote AGAINST 0bama, but I can’t see championing a pro-illegal with a history of “crossing the aisle”.

[Zhang Fei]

First off, nobody knew anything about global warming at the time. Whether it was true or false. Whether any shenanigans had queered the data. What Al Gore proposed to do about global warming. It was only after he lost against Bush, pushed through these cockamamie (and corrupt) schemes - which benefited him personally - that global warming became an issue of concern to conservatives. Prior to Al Gore’s post 2000 push for federal legislation, global warming was a non-issue among conservatives.

[Steel Wolf]

Yeah, I remember Al Gore from back then. It's just disingenuous to suggest that he's the same animal now than he was then. You want to talk a Romneyesque full body reinvention, he's a good example. Pro life, pro guns. Old conservative democrat family.

He and his wife were running around slapping warning labels on my music back then. They'd call him a social conservative Taliban mullah for that crap these days. Even his enviro-shtick was a mild, nascent version of what it became later on.

[pgkdan]

Guess what? Who shives a git? It’s 2011, not 1988!

[bubbacluck]

Golly, I remember when Carter was running against Reagan. The word on the street was that Reagan would start a nuclear war his first day in office. We really believed that. I voted for Carter.

I was pro-choice, pro-party, and fairly liberal; but if you asked me why I would not have been able to explain any of my “deeply held” beliefs.

Then a light turned on (thank you, Jesus!). I have been actively conservative ever since.

I guess I can never run for public office because of my past and lack of “purity”.

For crying out loud, people do change.

[RAV_USA]

Back around 1962, Obama used to crap in his pants every day and he became president!!!

[smoothsailing]

This is so lame. But, if it's any consolation, Robert Gibbs doesn't like Perry either.

[cicero2k]

I’m only concerned with his 12 years as governor of Texas record. So I don’t see being a “green” as a problem.

That said, I do want to know how he is different from George Bush 43 on immigration? We don’t need to go down that road again.

Otherwise, there’s no state as American as Texas right now. The person at the helm does need to be taken seriously. I don’t live there, I fled to CO from CA, but I’m getting closer :)

[GunRunner]

People who are making a big deal of this don't really realize that Texas was a Democrat only state since Reconstruction and only really started to turn Republican in the late 80s and 90s.

I don't have any problem with him being a conservative Democrat 25 years ago. Those of you who would like to make hay of this will stomp and scream but eventually you'll come to your senses and vote for him in November 2012.

[normy]

Perry is and has been in a full scale war with the EPA for years. ‘88 was before Gore walked barefoot over coals. This is ridiculous.