[SoConPubbie]

I didn’t lie about a damn thing. You’re not a Texan. WTF would you know about Texas politics in 1988? Obviously not a damn thing since you asked such an uninformed question. Texas was controlled by Democrats then not Republicans. Perry was a Democrat. He supported the most conservative Democratic candidate. Reagan has nothing to do with the equation.

So the most conservative Democrat had an ACU rating of 8%?

Do you know that Senator Feinstein of California had an ACU Rating of 9% last year?

[BuckeyeTexan]

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.