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Posted on 08/15/2011 5:41:08 PM PDT by Minus_The_Bear
Rick Perry was a Democrat until Karl Rove convinced him to switch parties and run as a Republican against Jim Hightower for Agriculture Commissioner.
Perry is always mentioning Reagan... But no Yellow-Dog Texas Democrat who was a chairman for Al Gore in 1988 would have voted for Reagan. Some Democrats would have... but not a leading member of the Texas party.
Perry is just too slick. He is not conservative at all.
Dream on. You lack spiritual discernment and clueless how God works. Sit back and watch - because you obviously missed what He already has done.
Perry was the activist democrat for the pro-abortion democrat party, well after the abortion wars had started and the lines were clearly drawn, and President Reagan was known as our most pro-life President ever.
Perry was fighting for the democrats, he became a democrat office holder in 1984, and campaigned against the Reagan administration in 1988.
I was not confused and fighting hard for the wrong team during the Reagan Revolution, were you?
That is not what I said, learn to read and stop putting your words in my mouth to support your straw man arguments.
Every time somebody mentions Rick Perry I think about the politician from the movie The Dead Zone.
Every time somebody mentions Rick Perry I think about the politician from the movie The Dead Zone.
Presuming he isn’t lying, and of course we know politicians never lie. That also seems highly suspect as he WAS a Democrat ELECTED official at the time. But I stated in my other post that he voted AGAINST Reagan. Do you have evidence to the contrary ?
BTW, his support of liberals isn’t off in the distant past. He was strongly behind Giuliani’s Presidential Campaign in 2008. As I stated before, if Perry had been a FReeper, he’d have been ZOT’ted for backing that liberal. We can and must do better.
Okay, so you admit that you are making unsubstantiated assumptions and making them sound like fact. Glad we have that out in the open.
In fact, you have no way of knowing how Perry voted except for his public statements. From that we know that he voted for Carter over Ford (Southern Democrat over northern pro-choice liberal Republican) and Bush 41 over Dukakis (southern moderate Republican over northern liberal Democrat). In both of those cases, he voted for the putatively more conservative candidate over the more liberal candidate. So why do you think he would have voted differently in the intervening elections?
I read your post and you got caught in an incredible lie. I’ve seen that same “myth” talking point repeated by Perrybots making the ludicrous claim that Gore was some sort of Conservative when Perry supported him in 1988. Of course, your boy supported Giuliani in 2008. He just seems to gravitate to liberals in both parties.
My only claim is that a) Perry has said he voted for Bush in 1988; and b) you can't support your claim that Perry voted for Mondale or for Carter in 1980. You made the claim about who Perry voted for in 1980 and 1984 - it is up to you to support that claim with evidence, not assumptions based on your own bias.
Al Gore circa 1988 was an entirely different animal himself... let’s not rewrite history. Then Gore was still against fed funding for abortion, school prayer and pro-2nd amendment.
And back to the subject of this thread...
Did Perry vote for Reagan ?
Don’t be a child, when a man signs up to run for office as a democrat in the same year that Reagan was winning 64% of his state then we know how he voted, and when he follows that up with running the campaign to defeat Reagan’s veep the next election, it writes it in stone.
Yeah, in 1988 he was only 91% moonbat instead of 100% (which he was by 1992).
BTW, weren’t you one of the same brigades supporting Ah-nold over McClintock back in 2003 ?
I apologize. I should have pinged you to my #99.
Since you say this with such authority, I am sure you can provide citations showing where Perry expressed pro-choice or pro-abortion positions. I await them with bated breath.
You know, the more people like you harp on this issue, the more convinced I am that Perry is the likely nominee. This is pretty weak sauce, when you have to misrepresent the man using assumptions, inference and innuendo. If that's the best you can do, you should hang it up - or better yet, join the Dems - they love that kind of baseless character assasination.
Perry’s Problematic Pals - http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2011/08/perrys_problematic_pals.html
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The article we were discussing.
American Thinker
As the Perry supporters tear Reagan down, they build Al Gore up.
You call an ACU rating of 9% in 1988, non-liberal? How about the 6% in 1987, or the 9% in 1986?
No, but I did recognize that Arnold could win, but Tom could not. As bad as Arnold was, Davis was worse, and Bustamante would have been worse still.
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