[DeaconBenjamin]

Thus, Governor Perry, who entered state politics farther back than me, was courageous enough to take a stand early on and join other statesmen like Ronald Reagan and Phil Gramm in acknowledging that the Democratic Party had left their conservative beliefs behind.

You must mean conservative Democrats like Al Gore in 1988 and those conservative Democrats pushing HillaryCare in 1993-94.

[free me]

Haha! yep

[gogogodzilla]

Clinton is (was?) light-years more conservative than Obama... after all, he ran on a platform to grow the US economy and actually did so. Unlike the Obamanation, who ran on a platform of giving people free s&^t... and is destroying our economy.

Also, by today’s standards, John F. Kennedy would be a hard-right conservative that would have problems being nominated by the Republican party for those hard-right beliefs.

So, it’s not all that hard to realize that, in the 1980’s, Democrats (specially one’s from the South, like Tennessee) would have been even more conservative than Clinton.