The party is full of a lot of dumb ignorant people who don't do their homework, like the ones who made Rudy Giuliani the front runner in 2008 for a while. Those people need to take a really hard look at Rick Perry. They need to ask why he was liberal pro-abortion Al Gore's campaign manager in Texas. They need to ask why he backed liberal pro-abortion Rudy Giuliani in 2008. They need to ask why he speaks before the racist reconquistas of La Raza.
Duh, because he was a Democrat at the time. Reagan once was a Democrats and voted for FDR in 1932.