I don’t give much of a crap about him being a rat then either but I can’t abide these people spinning their webs of lies to santize their chosen champion’s sketchy past.
Gore may have been the least liberal (my feeling also is that would actually have been pre-leadership Dick Gephardt) but still was one. Point is Perry was an honest to goodness loyal good ole boy establishment democrat not an arch-conservative Reagan-loving DINO from fairytale land.
Backing Rudy just 4 years ago was worse, just going by abortion let alone anything else. One would conclude abortion is not a priority for Rick with him backing the only Republican in the race that wasn’t pro-life and that was pro-gay (and add that to Rick apparently being cool with states choosing to allow gay marriage).
Interesting article
though in reason 10 it regurgitates Perry’s talking points and outright calls Gore “then conservative”.
The single biggest problem with Perry appears to be immigration.
“Sanitize”
I also find it outrageous that any pro-lifer could possibly endorse Rudy Giuliani for president (as opposed to for, say, NY governor or senator, where the other viable GOP choices are also pro-abortion), yet Rick Perry was not the only pro-lifer who endorsed Rudy for his “leadership” and took Rudy at his word when he promised to nominate judges like Scalia, Roberts and Alito. Pat Robertson and Luis Fortuño (then Puerto Rico’s Resident Commissioner in Congress, now Governor) come to mind as other prominent pro-life endorsers of Giuliani’s presidential candidacy. I think that Perry’s endorsement of Giuliani *should* be held against Perry, since I think that he was trying to position himself as Giuliani’s “ticket-balancing” VP nominee, but I don’t think that it is evidence that Perry is soft on abortion.
As for Perry and same-sex marriage, he has backed off his federalist chest-thumping about marriage, and clarified that what he meant was that while he supports a Federal Marriage Amendment, until one is adopted and ratified, the 10th Amendment prevents the federal government from forcing NY or any other state to limit marriage to one man and one woman.
Romney is a RINO who pretends to be otherwise, Bachmann struggles to get elected in her very conservative House district and may not be our best general-election candidate(she’s obviously no Sharron Angle, but then again she’s not merely running for the U.S. Senate), and the other candidates running appear unlikely to be able to win the nomination (I’ve always liked Santorum, but unless his standing changes drastically a vote for him instead of for a viable conservative is pretty much a vote for Romney). With Pawlenty out of the race, and with Paul Ryan and Chris Christie unlikely to jump into the fray (although there’s still some hope that at least one of them will change his mind), I am considering supporting Perry. I may end up backing Bachmann instead, but I’m not close to being there yet and I’m glad that I have a few months to make up my mind.