That's because Americans believe anything they see on TV. Would a highly principled conservative serve as campaign chairman to that Armand "Lenin is my best pal" Hammer protege, Al Gore?
From the link below, I copied this part:
The swing state that had voted for Democrats in four of the previous five presidential elections turned into a deep red one that has chosen Republicans for president eight straight times and does not have a single Democratic statewide elected official.
Do you think Texas is still a "swing state"?
This is a pretty weak argument. At the time, both Perry and Gore were Democrats. Gore was pro-life and was considered the most conservative Democrat running for president that year. Perry left the party the next year because it had moved so far to the left that there was no room for a conservative (as did many other Southern Democrats).
If you told me Perry was a campaign manager for McGovern, Mondale or Dukakis, I would say you might have a point. But this is pretty weak tea...