Sure, right. Senator John Tower (R-TX) must have been a flaming liberal in the 1960s whereas Lyndon Baines Johnson (D-TX) was to the right of Ronald Reagan at the time, right?
Sorry, those of us who have researched the facts know all this "the two parties switched sides, the Dems were the conservative party back then" is B.S. The media and some misguided freepers continue to make this claim but it doesn't stand up to scrunity. Most of these "conservative" southern RATs eagerly enacted all kinds of socialist legislation throughout the 20th century and were big fans of Woodrow Wilson's "progressive" policies and FDR's statist "new deal". Some Perry fans have been insisted Al Gore was an "old fashioned conservative southern Democrat" when Perry ran his campaign. Then a freeper researched Gore's ACU rating in the 1980s. His score was to the LEFT of Bernie Sanders of Vermont the year that Perry endorsed him. Gore wasn't even a "moderate" back then, the first President Bush used to call him "Mr. Ozone" at the time.
Additonally, it doesn't help your cause that you guys spreading the "Dems were the conservative party" B.S. can't even get a consensus date when the Dems "became" liberal en masse. It always seem to occur whenever the candidate you're touting got on the side of the GOP. "Prior to 1964, the Dems were the conservative party". "Prior to 1976, the Dems were the conservative party". "Prior to 1989, the Dems were the conservative party" "Prior to 1994, the Dems were the conservative party".
Well sorry, during the height of Reaganism, Texans that were on the side of Al Gore and Mike Dukasis were not "conservative". They were liberals who decided to change their views when they realized their careers were endangered.