[BobL]

“Rick Perry, like Ronald Reagan, Phil Gramm, along with many others, switched to the GOP.”

Let’s keep Reagan out of this, please. He switched parties LONG BEFORE Jimmy Carter showed up. I had the national Democrats figured out during Carter’s term, it should not have required Perry another decade to figure it out.

Yes, Dems down here in Texas are (or certainly were) another breed - they CARED about the state and social justice was among the last things on their minds. However, Perry was helping to run a Democrat PRESIDENTIAL campaign - which, combined with a Democrat Congress would have been a NIGHTMARE for this country. Perry could have simply said “No Thanks” when Gore came calling...but he didn’t...and that confuses many of us.

Gramm...who knows, but he switched in 1983, so he did at least figure out the Dems a lot earlier than Perry.

[af_vet_rr]

Yes, Dems down here in Texas are (or certainly were) another breed - they CARED about the state and social justice was among the last things on their minds. However, Perry was helping to run a Democrat PRESIDENTIAL campaign - which, combined with a Democrat Congress would have been a NIGHTMARE for this country. Perry could have simply said “No Thanks” when Gore came calling...but he didn’t...and that confuses many of us.

You should be a lot more confused about Perry supporting a pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, and pro-gun control Presidential candidate in 2008 than supporting Gore in 1988. I'm not defending Perry supporting Gore, but Perry was a Democrat then. In 2008, Perry was supposed to be a conservative. It's one of the things I still have a problem with. Cincinatus' Wife and other Perry supporters are starting to change my mind on Perry's support of illegal immigrants, but the Giuliani friendship and support still bugs me because I can easily see Giuliani ending up as the Attorney General under a Perry administration.