Posted on 08/15/2011 8:09:32 PM PDT by RED SOUTH
In an interview with an Iowa radio station on Monday, the Republican presidential contender explained his role as the Gore campaign’s Texas chairman by saying that “this was Al Gore before he invented the Internet and got to be Mr. Global Warming.”
But in fact, global warming was already a significant theme for Gore in 1987 and 1988 — long before his activism led to several books, a Nobel Prize and a part in an Academy Award-winning film. It was also well before the right gave him the "Mr. Ozone" nickname and talk radio heaped endless mockery on the future vice president.
In trying to be respectful and not call you a moron for not reading my posts with comprehension, just let me point out that I used the NRL link purposely BECAUSE it pointed out that Gore was pro life in his Congressional years and then changed.
The NRL and Billy Boy are NOT in agreement! Not even close. NRL talks about how pro-life Gore was while Billy Boy denies that fact entirely.
Additionally, I NEVER stated that Gore stayed conservative or pro-life,and have REPEATEDLY stated that he changed his politics substantially after getting into the White House.
I won't hold my breath for an apology.
Not to you, just a cc.
>> The NRL and Billy Boy are NOT in agreement! Not even close. NRL talks about how pro-life Gore was while Billy Boy denies that fact entirely. <<
Show me where I said Gore was pro-abortion his entire life. I specifically stated "Gore had a pro-abortion voting record THROUGHOUT his Senate career". I was pointing out Gore was pro-abortion when Perry was supporting him for President. I never "denied" he cast pro-life votes at one time. I don't give a cr@p that he used to vote pro-life in the 70s, it's not revelvant to the discussion about his 1988 presidential campaign.
>> I NEVER stated that Gore stayed conservative or pro-life,and have REPEATEDLY stated that he changed his politics substantially after getting into the White House. <<
You specifically stated "Gore was pro life until becoming VP" , which was in 1993. Your OWN link from and my post explained to you that you were WRONG, and Gore was solidly pro-abortion during his service in the U.S. Senate starting in 1985, and during his 1988 Presidential campaign.
>> I won't hold my breath for an apology. <<
Good, because you're not getting an apology for having amnesia about what you and I posted, and for failing notice your own link proved your post wrong.
On a related note, I wish someone could dig up a clip of Perry at a Walter Mondale campaign rally in 1984. It would be amusing to watch Perry supporters make up an entirely fictional biography about how Mondale was "the conservative candidate for President in 1984". Seems Perry supporters delusions know no bounds. Another huge difference between Perry and Reagan. Reagan admitted "I was part of the problem back then" during his Democrat years, and never made ridiculous claims like that "FDR was conservative in the 1930s... Hollywood Democrats were more conservative than the Republicans in those days"
You are correct, I misread.
Please accept my apologies.
LOL. Lovely technique, really. Feel free to call me whatever the hell you like directly. You clearly live in your old world. Talk to the hand.
Cut him a break...it was just after The Year Of The Cat. There have been many Time Passages since then.
I’m definitively not backing “Slick Rick” (tm Fieldmarshaldj) in the primary. He’s no better than Newt Gingrich AFAIC. If it’s a 2-way Rick/Mitt by the time it gets to Illinois I may have to vote for him but I’ll take my barf bag from ‘08 with me to the booth.
Unless someone else like Ryan or Christie jumps in or Cain improves or Santorum (or Roemer LOL JK) somehow crawls out of the bottom basement (how crappy or broke is his campaign that he can’t get at least a little traction in this group?) it looks like Bachmann for me. She could have some trouble in the GE but I honestly think Rick may have just as much. He speaks the same conservative rhetoric as Bachmann (in fact he’s a little over the top sometimes) opening himself up to the same kind of attacks except he unfortunately doesn’t walk the walk. And I hate to sound like a broken record but I don’t see how he won’t conjure up bad memories of our last President. (In fairness Bachmann could too because they will call her “dumb” and they’ll be actively trying to remind people of Bush no matter who it is)
Obama is weak enough (Thank God) that anyone who doesn’t run a crap Sharron Angle style campaign will have a decent chance.
I like to keep the door open so I’ll keep one foot off the bandwagon for the time being.
I ate some crow earlier; isn’t the first time and probably won’t be the last time.
Please accept my apologies, as the words I wrote to you applied directly to me.
It’s cool, Eagle Eye.
I knew one of us must have read something wrong, glad it wasn’t me. ;)
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