That's an outrageous lie and you know it. He was NEVER a Conservative, period, neither in the Senate nor in the House. His voting record was hardly different from Ted Kennedy's. In 1988, the year he ran for President, his record was 91% liberal. In 1992, it was a perfect 100% liberal. As one of his constituents who NEVER voted for him, I well remember.
That is not what I said, learn to read and stop putting your words in my mouth to support your straw man arguments.
>> In 1984 when Perry was enlisting for Democrat leadership, Texas went 64% for Reagan, Perry did not vote for Reagan, and in 1988 took over as a leader to defeat Reagan's veep in Texas. I'm a Texan, I was not confused about Reagan and Al Gore during the 1980s. <<
Yep, the "Gore was an old fashioned conservative Democrat when Perry endorsed him" myth was debunked long ago on FR. I never bought the "conservative Democrat" argument, but even I didn't know any better since I was a kid in the 80s and never lived in Texas or Tennessee. If you had asked me a few weeks ago, I would have assumed Gore was more moderate in '88 and probably guessed his ACU rating at the time was 30-40% conservative. Instead, the guy was rated more liberal than Bernie Sanders the year he ran for President! Perry was campaign manager for an envirowacko socialist, plain and simple.
And this history revisionism about Texas RATs were "the conservative party" during the height of Reaganism is the biggest load of B.S. I've ever heard. Imagine if a video surfaced of Perry at a Walter Mondale campaign rally in Texas during the 80s. I wouldn't be surprised if the Perrybots argue "let's look at the context... Walter Mondale was the CONSERVATIVE candidate for President in 1984, Reagan Republicans were the liberals then...", blah blah blah.
This is really looking desperate on their part. Why is it so hard for them to admit that Perry has endorsed LIBERALS in both parties?
Even the nutty Trumpistas that were trying to sell him as a "conservative tea party candidate" never came up with insane cr@p like "Nancy Pelosi was a CONSERVATIVE Democrat back when Trump endorsed her... she didn't become liberal until AFTER the 2008 elections..."
If people want to hop aboard the Perry express (round trip to Mexico City) that's one thing.
But all these self-righteous ninnies trying to sell that "Gore was a conservative democrat" in a foolhearty effort to sanitize Perry's past, GMAFB you clowns.
Gore may have been pro-life, at least officially but that's IT.
We have a responsibly to shoot that garbage down so none of the wide-eyed types fall for it but you know what the only proper response is?
"Talk to the hand". A stupid reply for a stupid statement.
I'd like to hear Perry say whether or not he voted for Jimmuh, Mondale, and Dukakis.
If he did, hey Reagan was once a liberal democrat who woke up. Michelle Bachmann was raised a rat and woke up in college I think it was. Romney was an independent during Reagan-Bush he doesn't want to go back to Reagan-Bush, oops never mind that last one.
People can change their views but this 1980's Texas were most of the democrats were conservative and Al Gore was "somewhat conservative" exists only in fairy tales.