Everyone has skeletons:
Mitt Romney signed RomneyCare.
Rick Perry endorsed Al Gore and Rudy Giuliani.
Sarah Palin endorsed John McCain and Rick Perry.
Perry endorsed Giuliani on his national security platform.
Rick Perry endorsed Al Gore when they were both southern democrats in 1988 (Dukakis won that Dem Primary) Perry became a Republican in 1989.
..Gore won a seat in Congress in 1976 "with 32 percent of the vote, three percentage points more than his nearest rival." He won the next three elections in 1978, 1980, and 1982 where "he was unopposed twice and won 79 percent of the vote the other time." In 1984, Gore successfully ran for a seat in the U.S. Senate, which had been vacated by Republican Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker. He was "unopposed in the Democratic Senatorial primary and won the general election going away," despite the fact that Republican President Ronald Reagan swept Tennessee in his reelection campaign the same year.
During his time in Congress, Gore was considered a "moderate" (he referred to himself as a "raging moderate") opposing federal funding of abortion, voting in favor of a bill which supported a moment in silence in schools, and voting against a ban on interstate sales of guns. His position as a moderate (and on policies related to that label) shifted later in life after he became Vice President and ran for president in 2000 Source
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......"At the beginning of his six years in the State House, Mr. Perry shot down the notion that he might switch parties, despite the conservative leanings that put him at odds with his party leaders.
After former United States Representative Kent Hance of Lubbock defected to the Republican Party in 1985, Mr. Perry told the Abilene paper he was disappointed, saying he planned to change his party rather than defect to the other side.
The gap was obvious by 1989, his last year in the Legislature, when Mr. Perry carried a workers compensation insurance bill that angered Texas trial lawyers, then a powerful force in state politics. That same year, The Dallas Morning News named Mr. Perry one of the states 10 best legislators, but he was criticized by another publication.
The liberal Texas Observer called Mr. Perry the Benedict Arnold of the Democratic Party for siding too often with Mr. Clements.
If The Texas Observer ever says anything good about me, then Ive been hit on the head and they can send me back home, Mr. Perry said.
Rumors that Mr. Perry would defect to the Republican Party and run against Jim Hightower, the populist Democratic agriculture commissioner picked up steam by late 1989. On Sept. 29, Mr. Perry made it official at a Capitol news conference. At his side were Fred Meyer, chairman of the Texas Republican Party, and Senator Phil Gramm, a former Democrat, who was aggressively courting would-be converts.
Mr. Perrys timing, now legendary, could not have been better. He was one of only two Republicans elected to nonjudicial statewide office in 1990. Eight years later, Republicans swept every one of them.
Perry has been a risk taker, said Mr. Hance, the party switcher who became the chancellor of Texas Tech University. And if you look at Perrys timing in every race, hes been the golden guy. Taking a Look at the Governor, Back When He Was a Democrat
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eliminate Milt Romney and RINO Perry from consideration.
Hurt themselves already, RINOs Romney and Perry have.