For Perry to claim that Iowans aren't "real people," voting in primaries. Perry got dusted up really bad, went home to "assess" his chances of staying in the race.
Perry will have to appeal to a lot of us "non-real people" in the heartland besides Iowa.
Perry should have been very attractive to the Iowa voters but he, like others feeling the sting of Mitt's millions were bruised in the process to make Mitt's numbers higher than they would have been.
To make it even more crystal clear...
He couldn’t have been “the dnc chair for Gore in Texas”; there was no such thing. This was in 1988, in a Democrat primary, in which Gore was one of several Dems who were running for the nomination.
The DNC did not back Al Gore nor publicly back any particular candidate during their primaries.
The winner of the primaries and the eventual nominee was Mass. Gov. Michael Dukakis.
Having already voted twice for Ronald Reagan...yes, Perry was one of the millions of Reagan Democrats...Perry wasn’t about to vote for Dukakis, so he voted for Reagan’s VP, Bush 41.
The very next year he became a Republican.
And his electoral history as a Republican is amazing, and has been ongoing for decades.
People who don’t want to know or who simply don’t know, have claimed he should’ve seen algore as a liberal, but what Perry...as still a registered Democrat...saw was someone he believed to be to the right of most national Democrats based on Gore’s pro life history, his Southern roots, and the fact that he and Tipper took on Hollywood and the Music Industry on cultural issues
But that was his last shot as someone still trying to stay a Democrat. He gave it up.
It’s like Reagan said...”I didn’t leave the Democrat party; it left me”.