Sorry, the truth hurts you when you are trying to dissemble. Algore was pro-life and Rick Perry was a typical Texas Democrat back in the day (which wasn’t Leftist) when he supported algore. Gore was considered too conservative and too southern by those against whom he ran for President that year, and by the MSM.
Algore learned his lesson, that if you wanted to get beyond the voters of Tennessee in your political career, you had better move decidedly to the Left, which he did AFTER Perry supported him. These are just facts. You can run around later and claim that anybody could tell that algore was a phony. You are saying that after he moved way Left. That’s what proved his phoniness.
Does he come across to me as a phony?
Does now, but he didn’t always, but he did come across to me as a bit odd.
A major part of a President's duty is appointing people. If Slick Rick is so dumb that he thinks Algore, Rudy, and McCain are worthy of support, then he does not deserve to be President.
It's a mistake to think that a "typical Texas Democrat" was conservative. White trash and other backward elements in TX enthusiastically supported New Dealers like Ralph Yarborough and LBJ (who was falsely perceived as being to the right of JFK, for some reason), until oil wealth, immigration, and education brought prosperity to TX. Just because Rick Perry affects the mannerisms of a hick doesn't mean he is deeply conservative. TX is very sophisticated politically.
And remember that Slick Rick went all through the Reagan years, the glorious heyday of conservatism, as a happy member of the corrupt, kleptocratic, welfarist, socialist, Demonrat Party. He only changed in order to enhance his political future.