Correction...Perry now claims he voted for Reagan twice...that`s right Reagan had such a big impact on him that he worked for Al Gore
Bring on the lie detector!!!!
There was a lot of them. Do you think Reagan won 49 states in '84 with just Republicans?
He also voted for Bush41 in the general election of 1988. I don't know how old you are, but I remember the 1988 election, and while I was not a Democrat, I was darned sure looking for someone a lot more conservative than Poppy Bush in the primary. So I don't find it unreasonable that a registered Dem would try to find a more conservative alternative - at that point, Gore at least appeared to be relatively conservative, especially when compared to the alternatives. OF course, once it was down to Poppy and Dukakis, Poppy was the more conservative choice.
You are obviously ignorant of Reagan Democrats and the whole process whereby most of the Southern Dems moved into the GOP. There were a lot of pro-life Democrats even as late as the 1990's (remember Bob Casey, Sr. and Zell Miller?) So the idea that a pro-life Christian could still be a Southern Democrat in the 1980's is not only reasonable, it was actually quite common.