Posted on 09/07/2011 4:16:11 PM PDT by Kaslin
Edited on 09/07/2011 4:18:13 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Politics: In a new campaign ad, Ron Paul questions the bona fides of the Texas governor as a true GOP conservative, charging he once turned his back on the Reagan revolution. The truth is somewhat different.
Back in 1988 Rick Perry, now a 2012 presidential contender and three-term GOP governor of Texas, was a Democrat. He acknowledges that, just as President Reagan acknowledged that he too had been a Democrat who did not leave his former party so much as it left him.
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In 1988 I was either eating or surfing. The rest of the time I was either asleep or hungry.
At the time of Gore's 1988 run it was widely known he was a flaming environMENTAL wacko. Perry knew this and supported him anyway.
And yet here's Al Gore's 100% pro-abortion scorecard in 1988:
National Committee for a Human Life Amendment: Al Gore Key Votes 1975 - 1992 - Senate Votes
I think the freepers who keep adamantly insisting "Gore was a pro-life conservative when he ran for President " need to get together with the "Chris Christie is a pro-abortion and pro-gay marriage Governor". Neither group seems to have any interest in the facts that have been presented on this forum numerous times. Instead,they persistently make up completely fictional stories about people's record on abortion. I think they have a bright future writing tall tales... you guys could pen crazy stories like "Rick Santorum's pro-abortion Senate career" and "Barack Obama: Pro-Life Champion"
>> Heck, I’d vote for Gore circa 1988. <<
I think we need a vanity thread on "Top 10 Most Ridiculous Statements from Perrybots" on FR. This one belongs right next to the "Jesus was for open borders" and the "Perry's polling poorly among New Jersey Republicans because they hate Christians" quotes. ;-)
On what planet was this Al Gore you describe ? I remember Senator Al Gore in 1988 as he was (unfortunately) my junior Senator. He was an across-the-board left-winger with a near-perfect left-wing record. He liked to misrepresent himself to us Tennessean rubes as a “moderate Conservative”, but his votes betrayed him for the Socialist nut that he was.
I love the revisionist history (or what I like to call LIES) from the Perrybots. My mouth literally falls open at the audacity of these claims, as it requires them to recast the moonbat Gore as some sort of Conservative prior to 1992. I was right here in Tennessee, right smack dab in the middle of Gore country (Nashville, despite his claim to be a good-ole boy from rural Carthage), and this bozo asshat NEVER was a Conservative. Don’t get me wrong, he and Sasser, the other Socialist asshat Senator, used to lie their butts off to the voters in the pre-internet era about how “Conservative” they were (I’ll never forget Sasser riding around in a cop car in his commercials, which eventually were lambasted by Frist for their absurd misrepresentation of his being tough on crime). These liars and idiots were a good part of the reason I became a Republican 25 years ago as a teenager. I saw through their bullcrap. To hear the same lies made about Gore’s record after all these years just totally take the cake, and it totally exposes the fraudulence of their candidate, Perry.
Ouch.
Al Gore wrote to a pro-life group that abortion is “undeniably the taking of a human life”. Maybe it was prior to 1988, but Gore and Bill Clinton were known as “pro-life” on abortion before they aspired to higher office. Like Jesse Jackson. He used to call abortion “black genocide” in the 70’s and early 80’s. They decided they wouldn’t get anywhere in the democratic party unless they “got their minds right”.
>>>>>Wasn't Reagan a cheerleader for Hollywood union members? Wasn't he even the president of that union.
Reagan was voted by a majority of his peers to represent them as their union leader. At the same time Reagan was fighting to purge communists from Hollywood too. I'd call Reagan a patriot. How about you?
>>>>>Didn't Reagan sign a bill in California that was pro-abortion?
No. Reagan was always pro-life and never supported abortion on demand, personally or as a matter of public policy. Reagan signed the Therapeutic Abortion Act of 1967 with the hope that it would help with difficult abortion cases and limit overall abortions throughout California. In the end, the California medical community ran roughshod over the legislation and turned it into a 100% pro-abortion bill.
>>>>>Didn't Reagan sign an amnesty bill as president?
The IRCA of 1986 contained three parts, employer sanctions, increased border security enforcement and limited "legalization" that started at 300K, quickly became 900K and later was upped to 2.7 million by the Democrat controlled Congress. If the IRCA of 1986 had been properly enforced and not gutted by Ted Kennedy and his fellow liberals, America wouldn't be facing the serious problems we have today with an out of control immigration policy.
Facts are, Reagan won the Cold War, cut taxes to 50 year lows and helped revive the US economy creating booming growth that improved the lives of all Americans.
I like Rick Perry and might even vote for him, but he's no Ronald Reagan.
Where in Tennessee do you live, because I lived there and that dog will not hunt, the a hole has always been an a hole and he won office because of the gore name. My x still lives there.
I’ve been aware of that letter for almost 20 years, but anybody that trusts these opportunistic Democrats (or RINOs) to keep promises on critical issues of ethics or morality are complete fools. For Perry and his supporters to claim with a straight face that he was actively campaigning for a “Conservative” in 1988 is an outrageous falsehood. If that’s not enough, I offer up the individual he unapologetically supported for President in 2008, Rudy Giuliani, a social left-winger.
Geez. All I’m trying to point out is that there did once exist an animal known as a “pro-life democrat”. Dick Gephardt, Dennis Kucinich, Jesse Jackson, Bill Clinton, Bob Casey. Casey is the only one I know of who stayed true. But he’s dead. His son claims to be pro-life, but when the rubber meets the road, votes pro-abortion. There are plenty of pro-choice republicans, but pro-life democrats are a dying breed, soon to be extinct.
Does Bill Clinton know that?
President Bill Clinton said he has “always been pro-choice” and has “never wavered” in his “support for Roe v. Wade.” “I have believed in the rule of Roe v. Wade for 20 years since I used to teach it in law school.”
Does Bill Clinton know that?
President Bill Clinton said he has “always been pro-choice” and has “never wavered” in his “support for Roe v. Wade.” “I have believed in the rule of Roe v. Wade for 20 years since I used to teach it in law school.”
In ‘88, my smart but liberal friends “knew” I was “conservative” (I was impressed by Algore when Perry was) but I never realized it until I voted against Clinton in 1996.
Rick Perry DNC
Isn’t it amazing how DemonRAT LIES take on a life of their own. Sharp tells the BIG LIE and Paulettes repeat it ad nauseum.
I wish Jim would ban this lie from being spread on FR.
” I think we need a vanity thread on “Top 10 Most Ridiculous Statements from Perrybots” on FR. “
10 won’t cover it....TOP 100 : )
10 x 100, maybe.
Do you remember when Bill Clinton hosted those “town hall meetings” during his first term? Some guy in the audience challenged him on his pro-choice views. Clinton bragged about how he was ahead of the curve in outlawing late-term abortions in Arkansas, and how he was a “pragmatist”. you know, like Mario Cuomo, who is “personally opposed to abortion” but won’t let his beliefs “get in the way” of the law. Clinton wanted it both ways. Notice that Clinton didn’t hold many town hall meetings after that.
Perry has explained everything, you just don’t want to hear it. He was conservative when he was a Democrat, he is a conservative now. That you can’t comprehend those simple facts speaks more to your ability to reason than to any problem he might have. Your RPDS is showing . . . again.
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