I know you're attempting to promote your candidate by attacking others, and that's fine...it's part of our process. But, while I disagree with your synopsis, the endorsement part reminds me of the old saying, "those who live in glass houses....."
Didn't Gov. Perry work for Al Gore (as a Democrat) and didn't Gov. Perry endorse Rudy Giuliani in the 2008 Presidential election?
Good luck with your effort.
These old saws against Rick Perry have been thoroughly vetted. Ad nauseum.
I know what I’m talking about here...I am Texan through and through and have lived the same Texas political history as Rick Perry.
The entire state of Texas was solid Democrat for most of its history. Certain parts were more dug in Democrat than others, among them the rural area Perry came from. You didn’t even have Republican options there to vote for, until fairly recently in that history.
The brand of Democrat was not the same as a northeastern liberal Democrat. Nowadays the Pelosi type Democrat is so foreign to these people’s beliefs and values it’s like different solar systems, not just different planets.
Perry tried to pick the best of the bad lot of Dems that year. I believe Dick Gephardt was running, and Dukakis.
People say algore was already showing lib tendencies when Perry backed him, but that is not how Perry had read Gore’s record. He saw him as the most conservative of those Dems running.
When Dukakis won the nomination, Perry voted for George HW Bush for President. He had already cast his Presidential vote for Ronald Reagan twice.
Endorsing Rudy was to keep from endorsing either McCain or Romney. He believed, and correctly, that Rudy would be the best leader in the War on Terrorism, of those who were running. He extracted a pledge, the man’s personal word, that he would appoint strict constructionist judges to the Supreme Court and would not seek to change any pro life policies that the GOP had put in place.
I wish he had not endorsed anyone from the terrible choices we had, but his choice was a thinking outside the box choice that was defensible given the options.
Santorum’s much ballyhooed social conservatism should have kept him from endorsing Romney, in my opinion. The best choice for him was probably no choice, but Romney is a bad pick.
I said the same about Herman Cain’s Romney endorsement, and for crying out loud, Jim DeMint even endorsed Romney.