Only when he recognized the full implications of international Communism did he switch parties.
What is more important: His origin with Karl Rove and Al Gore
OR
His PerryCARE and OpenBorders policies.
To the neocons at the Weekly Standard, some of them former trotskyites or childen of neocon former trots, the past doesn’t matter (at least for some people!)
was it meantioned that Ronald Reagon was a democrat before he realized the error of his ways?
Curious why Bachmanns’ support of Carter over Reagan does not get the same scrutiny.
Lots of people were democrats. That doesn’t bother me.
Lots of other reasons to mistrust Mitt Perry.
“Joe Scarborough, MSNBC’s token Republican”. That’s history. If you listen to Scarborough now, you would know that he has been infected with the West Side of Manhattan elitism and probably some romance with Mika. He is on the MSNBC Payroll and bears no resemblence to the Conservative he professes to be.
To say it in a single sentence, some southern democrats are more conservative than some northeastern republicans.
That is all that matters.
RINO democrat ALGORE openborders GUARDISIL democrat RINO
There. I just summed up the next 50 posts on this thread.
Talk about an understatement. These were not "stories" they caused entire towns to pack up and go GTT (Gone to Texas). They moved into the most inhospitable country imaginable to simply be left alone to live their lives in peace. Some of my ancestors were part of that. FACT. Some were wanted men, because they opposed the abuses and were literally burned out of Alabama....
Bring on the flame attack, those who simply do not know about this part of unwritten history. It did happen. And we have not had this much corruption in DC since then. But we are there again now and it frightens the crap out of me to think about how we will resolve this mess.
His record as governor is much more relevent than what he was decades ago. If he was never governor then it would be relevent.
The article makes a lot of good points. But, I do consider 1988 pretty late to be backing a man like Al Gore, even the 1988 version. He could have stayed out of it, as so many southerners did in ‘84.
I would have been more convinced if there was a conversion of sorts. This doesn’t disqualify him for me. Having conservative allies for 20 years is enough to help me charitably surmise that he may be sipping in the stuff slowly. He still demonstrates (notwithstanding recent posturing) that he is reflexively big government in a few areas that we have already gone over so many times, and need not rehash again.
BTW- I see this as the root of the visceral media hatred toward him. There is nothing more despised by them than someone who has left the flock.
What he was in the past isn’t of concern other than the fact he still has leftist ideology polluting his thought processes.
He not only signed a Dream Act for the children of illegals into law for Texas, he defended it as a states rights issue in the first debate.
His pro-illegal statements and actions alone are too much for me to accept him as the preferred first choice for republican nominee.
I have made it a point over the last few years to try and educate FReepers about the real Huckster that ran for President last time, and I will continue to do so (as my About Page attests) as long as I'm allowed to by Big Jim. I would greatly appreciate it if Texas FReepers would pick up the mantle and present a case for or against Gov. Perry with substantiating info sources as well.
The simple answer is NO!~! The qualified answer is NO!!
Civil War and Reconstruction memories, often brought to Texas by migrants from other Southern or Border states, remained strong for generations. For example, Wise, Cooke, Montague, and other North Texas counties received many refugees from the parts of Missouri most affected by Union depredations and guerilla warfare. Several members of the James gang settled in Scyene, Texas, now part of Dallas. Catholic European immigrants, such as the Czechs, and Mexican-Americans tended to be Democrats, as did their counterparts elsewhere. The black vote was suppressed by poll taxes, white only Democrat primaries, and intermittent violence, as was the case in other Southern states. The Depression and New Deal locked in the anti-Republican sentiment for another half century in rural Texas.
What is interesting is that while Texas and other Southern and Border states were turning Republican, formerly rock-ribbed Republican strongholds in New England and areas settled by Yankees, from upstate New York to the Pacific Northwest, were turning Democrat. To give but two examples, Theodore Roosevelt V, great-great grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt, supported Obama in 2008. Warren Buffett, a notorious liberal, is the son of Howard Buffett, an Old Right Republican in the Robert Taft mode. (The Buffetts are descendants of colonial settlers of Long Island.) God and Man at Yale, the book that first placed William Buckley, Jr., into the public eye, described leftist dominance of the old Puritan-founded university over 60 years ago. (Buckley was not a Yankee Protestant, but a Catholic of Irish and German descent. His paternal grandfather was a sheriff in Texas in the late 1800s.)
old saying; If you are young and not a liberal you have no heart, if you are old and not a conservative you have no brain.
Plenty of people have learned about conservatism and have abandoned liberalism but no one the other way.