What a pile of unattributed garbage.
""Al Gore was an old fashioned pro-life Democrat who hadn't discovered global warming back then"
I didn't say this, but Gore was considered a "moderate" within the Democrat Party.
Both statements are true. Perry was raised in a Democrat family where his father was a long-serving Democrat county commissioner. It was natural for him to start his political career as a Democrat. He won his first election in 1984 when he was elected to the Texas house and soon became a rising star in Texas democrat politics. An opportunity to advance himself presented itself and he became Gore’s Texas campaign manager in 1988.
Those too young to remember wouldn’t recognize the Al Gore of 1988. He opposed the federal funding of abortion, supported a moment of silence in schools for prayer, approved funding of the Nicaraguan contras and was against the ban on interstate handgun sales. Gore’s platform was one that a conservative West Texas Democrat like state representative Perry could support when he signed up to chair the Senator’s Texas campaign.
From the election on, the Gore/Perry partnership began to crumble and the way that their paths diverged in the past three decades speaks eloquently to the way American politics has been reshaped. Gore has sailed left, while Perry’s political odyssey has seen him tack in the other direction — and to the opposing party.
Perry says that the Gore experience helped him to “come to his senses,” and he switched to the Republican party in 1989, fully 22 years ago. Perry switched parties over two decades ago and critics somehow think that bringing it up now is newsworthy? Sorry guys, as we say in Texas, that dog won’t hunt.
If you’re interested in more details, here is a Texas Tribune article titled Rick Perry: The Democrat Years.
"Rick Perry is NO fan of the Bush family, they despise him"
If you think this is a lie, then you know absolutely NOTHING about it. The whole Bush clan worked hard against Perry in this last election, including Rove, Baker, and Karen Hughes. The Bushes have disliked Perry ever since he attacked GWB as a big spender. learn the facts and stop spouting lies.
"Sarah Palin supports him for President". (Look at my photoshopped picture of the two of them together)
NOt mine either. Sarah Palin has not said who she supports, but Palin and Perry are friends and Perry worked hard for her campaign in 2008 which is when the struck up their continuing friendship.
"He's ALWAYS been a conservative. Texas Democrats were the CONSERVATIVE party in the 1980s, it was the Reagan Republicans who were liberals back then"
He has always been a conservative. He was well known as a conservative here in Texas. While he was a Democrat, he was a member of the "Pit Bulls," a group of conservative budget hawks--Democrats all.
You clearly know nothing of Texas politics--or for that matter politics anywhere in the South at that time. Many conservatives in the South ran as Democrats because Republicans could not be elected. Bill Clemments was the first Republican governor of Texas in 100 years--in 1979--first since Reconstruction. David Treen was the first Republican governor of Louisiana in 102 years.
I don't recall anyone asserting Reagan Republicans were liberals--clearly you are the liar here.
The rest of your list of "lies" are pretty much facts, not "lies." The claim of NEVER raising taxes depends on what you consider "taxes," but there is no denying that compared to other states, he cut spending over raising taxes.
Nice try, next time try telling the truth.
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Gore was considered a "moderate" within the Democrat Party. <<
Gore had an 9% "conservative" rating from the ACU when he ran for President in 1988. He had an even worse 6% conservative rating in 1987! If we go by your fantasyland claims that Gore's 91%+ liberal record made him a "moderate" back then, then San Francisco's Diane Feinstein is one of the most "moderate" Democrats in office today. Her ratings are EXACTLY like "moderate" Al Gore's were in 1988.
>> "Rick Perry is NO fan of the Bush family, they despise him" If you think this is a lie, then you know absolutely NOTHING about it. <<
Apprently Rick Perry himself "knows nothing about it", since he has PERSONALLY refutted this claim and says he's great pals with GWB and there's no bad blood between 'em. If you really think Bush hates Perry, take it up with YOUR candidate because he's insisting otherwise:
Perry on his predecessor: 'I love George Bush'
>> Sarah Palin has not said who she supports <<
Which hasn't stopped all the "honest" Perry supporters from taking a quote where she endorsed him for GOVERNOR over two turds and used it in a context to imply she's backing him for President.
>> He has always been a conservative. He was well known as a conservative here in Texas. <<
Sure, conservatives all LOVED Rudy Giuliani in 2008 like Rick Perry did, right? Funny how supporting Rudy in the primary back then got people banned from a CONSERVATIVE forum like here on FreeRepublic. And supporting in-state tuition for illegal aliens, hate crime bills, and mandatory vacinations in very conservative too I bet.
>> You clearly know nothing of Texas politics--or for that matter politics anywhere in the South at that time. I don't recall anyone asserting Reagan Republicans were liberals--clearly you are the liar here. <<
Apprently you know little of your own state, since the Govenror at the time was Bill Clements (R), the Senator was Jim Tower (R), and it gave 64% of the vote to REAGAN (R) for President. If Democrats were "THE Conservative Party" in Texas at the time, what were the Texas Republicans? They were the opposition party working AGAINST Perry's candidates. Obviously they weren't THE conservative party, since you're claiming Perry and the rest of the Texas Dems in Carter, Mondale, and Gore's camp were the "real" conservatives.
>> The claim of NEVER raising taxes depends on what you consider "taxes" <<
It depends on what the meaning of "is", is.
>> but there is no denying that compared to other states, he cut spending <<
Sure, that's why the Texas state budget went from $49 billion when he became Governor, to $90 billion today. Cuz he's such a good limited government guy compared to other states with much smaller budgets. Right.
>> Nice try, next time try telling the truth. <<
Have you looked in the mirror lately?