You're like a dog with a bone.
>>>>......Rumors that Mr. Perry would defect to the Republican Party — and run against Jim Hightower, the populist Democratic agriculture commissioner — picked up steam by late 1989. On Sept. 29, Mr. Perry made it official at a Capitol news conference. At his side were Fred Meyer, chairman of the Texas Republican Party, and Senator Phil Gramm, a former Democrat, who was aggressively courting would-be converts.
Mr. Perry’s timing, now legendary, could not have been better. He was one of only two Republicans elected to nonjudicial statewide office in 1990. Eight years later, Republicans swept every one of them.
“Perry has been a risk taker,” said Mr. Hance, the party switcher who became the chancellor of Texas Tech University. “And if you look at Perry’s timing in every race, he’s been the golden guy.” Taking a Look at the Governor, Back When He Was a Democrat
GW Bush ran for the the US Congress in 1972 in the 19th district of Texas. Guess who defeated him that year running on the democratic ticket. Kent Hance. He served for three terms and then ran in the democratic primary for the US Senate seat being vacated by John Tower and lost to Lloyd Doggett by 273 votes. He switched to the GOP in 1985.