I love this thread.
And there is no evidence that he did not vote for Reagain, either. And that is the point. If you state that particular claim as your opinion, it can stand. If you state it as fact, it will not, as you cannot prove it either way without a statement from Perry as to how he voted. FR should not be used to be used to try and establish false facts. We get enough of that from the MSM as it is.
The year was 1980, when one in four Democrats voted Republican. They soon became known as Reagan Democrats.
It was not until 1984, when Reagan won an even larger landslide victory against Walter Mondale and expanded Republican identification to 35 percent of the electorate from 28 percent in 1980, that one could say these disaffected Democrats became Reagan loyalists. They were voting for Reagan more than they were voting against Mondale.
Take a lesson from Reagan http://www.brspoll.com/commentary/TakeALessonFromReagan.php?sp=true
And then after Reagan's massive 1984 win, the 1988 election is far closer.
Many people who identified themselves as Democrats voted for Reagan and voted democrat again in 1988. To be shocked that Perry did the same as thousands of others is consistent with many conservative leaning democrats of that time.
First, Rick Perry was not Al Gore’s campaign manager or chairman. He endorsed Gore. He did not chair his campaign.
Second, in 1988 Gore was pro-life, pro-guns, pro-defense, and anti-homosexual. His 1988 presidential campaign was the last pro-life Democratic campaign.
http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=003xoU
Third, Perry is on record as saying he voted for Reagan, twice.
http://m.statesman.com/statesman/pm_21987/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=ZGkCvJQa