I’m a little bit cautious about converts, it’s hard for me to imagine ever being a democrat.
In 1998 Rick Perry was elected the first Republican Lt. Gov. since Reconstruction. He became governor in 2000 when Bush moved into the White House. In 2010 the GOP took enough seats to have a super majority. Perry beat the Rove-Bush-Hutchison Machine primary challenge, going on to win re-election and becoming the longest serving Texas governor in state history.
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“I’m a little bit cautious about converts, it’s hard for me to imagine ever being a democrat.”
It’s even HARDER for me to see anyone who calls himself conservative being a leader in Al Gore’s 1988 presidential run, particularly when Gore’s conservative rating was a “9” out of 100:
http://www.mediaresearch.org/realitycheck/2000/pdf/fax0726.pdf
It’s also hard to see how ANYONE who claims to be conservative can immediately support the Democrats after their attempted IMPEACHMENT of Reagan for Iran Contra.
Nope...Perry DEFINITELY was not a conservative back then, regardless of what he claims to be. He also isn’t one now, given all the crap he’s done as governor, and especially because of his plan, announced THIS WEEK, to legalize ALL of the Illegals in this country, so they can work.
We don’t need that - we need them to simply GO HOME.
You need to understand the South and the state of Texas. The entire area was Democrat by tradition. Republicans were associated in those areas with the horrible Reconstruction Government after the Civil War, and with the Depression in the person of Herbert Hoover.
Now that I’ve reminded you of regional history, how did you feel about Ronald Reagan being a Democrat?
How do you feel that Herman Cain was a Democrat and voted for the Bill Clinton and Al Gore ticket?
I grew up in Kentucky and in those days (virtually) EVERYONE was a Democrat. You could be liberal or conservative but, if you wanted to be elected, you had to call yourself a Democrat.
I used to wonder why Kentucky held its election for Governor in May when other states held theirs in Nov. Actually it was the Democrat primary that was held in May, the one with all the TV and newspaper ads and all of the hoopla, i.e., the one that mattered. The actual Nov. election was a foregone conclusion as to the winner between the Democrat candidate and the Republican candidate. So if you wanted your vote to count, you had to be registered as a Democrat.
When I moved to Florida in 1980 it was same and I registered as a Democrat. But as I matured I found I could no longer live the lie and could no longer be associated with those people and that's when I switched my registration to Republican.
I suspect that Perry's situation was similar.
I’m a little bit cautious about converts, it’s hard for me to imagine ever being a democrat.You left off your sarcasm tag. Either that, or you forgot to plug in your brain.