And that’s exactly what I feared. He was saying some good things when he first got into the race. But it seemed a little too good to me. Thanks for your thoughts.
Mind you, I don’t make blanket condemnations of party switchers. There are people that switch out of legitimate conviction, such as the party having moved away from them. That’s what Reagan did. But Perry was opposite. He was supporting a Socialist for President in 1988, Al Gore, and as he harbored ambitions for higher office, he could see TX was moving away from the Democrats and he’d have to switch in order to move up (and he was also brought aboard by Karl Rove, who has become notorious for supporting liberal Republicans), and he did barely a year later. If he’d been in a state like California or even Georgia at the time, he’d have remained a Democrat. If Gore had won the Presidency in 1988, he’d have probably gone to DC to work in his administration... still as a Democrat. These are just some of the basic problems with him from the get-go before you even get to everything else.