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Did Perry Even Vote For Reagan?

Posted on 08/15/2011 5:41:08 PM PDT by Minus_The_Bear

Rick Perry was a Democrat until Karl Rove convinced him to switch parties and run as a Republican against Jim Hightower for Agriculture Commissioner.

Perry is always mentioning Reagan... But no Yellow-Dog Texas Democrat who was a chairman for Al Gore in 1988 would have voted for Reagan. Some Democrats would have... but not a leading member of the Texas party.

Perry is just too slick. He is not conservative at all.


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1 posted on 08/15/2011 5:41:11 PM PDT by Minus_The_Bear
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To: Minus_The_Bear

What Texan roads did he sell to spain? This guy is a wolf in sheeps clothing


2 posted on 08/15/2011 5:42:34 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (V)
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To: Minus_The_Bear

Reagan voted for FDR.


3 posted on 08/15/2011 5:42:50 PM PDT by Huck (Here's the bad news--Gov. Perry is the best we've got.)
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To: Minus_The_Bear

Can you spell pro amnesty.... He can


4 posted on 08/15/2011 5:44:04 PM PDT by Breto (never accept the premise)
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5 posted on 08/15/2011 5:44:38 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: Minus_The_Bear
I don't know but I know that Michael Reagan endorsed Rick Perry last year.
6 posted on 08/15/2011 5:48:27 PM PDT by tsowellfan
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To: Huck
Reagan didn't campaign for LBJ did he? He campaigned for Goldwater.

Reagan was also never an elected official of the Democrat party.
7 posted on 08/15/2011 5:49:23 PM PDT by Minus_The_Bear
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To: tsowellfan

So did Sarah Palin.


8 posted on 08/15/2011 5:50:13 PM PDT by DRey
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To: Minus_The_Bear

Perry smells funny.....


9 posted on 08/15/2011 5:50:20 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
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To: hosepipe

I know. It’s been a long time for us, but that’s the smell of victory.


10 posted on 08/15/2011 5:53:10 PM PDT by DRey
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To: Minus_The_Bear
Oh, you think that, like Rush Limbaugh, Perry never voted for Reagan?
11 posted on 08/15/2011 5:53:45 PM PDT by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: Minus_The_Bear

Of course not. He was still a left wing Democrat in those days, too soon o0ut 9of his commie college days and fired up against Conservatives. Don’t forget he was later Al Gore’s campaign manager!

Perry’s Problematic Even today he must be judged by the company he keeps: Illegal immigrants and these people. Pals - http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2011/08/perrys_problematic_pals.html

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12 posted on 08/15/2011 5:54:04 PM PDT by Paperdoll (NO MORE BUSHS!)
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To: Huck
Reagan voted for FDR.

Well, then, by the Freeper idealogical purity test, Reagan (who by the way was a Democrat until 1962) was a RINO.

;-)

13 posted on 08/15/2011 5:54:04 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: Paperdoll

He was never a left-wing Democrat. That’s a lie. He was a right-wing Democrat.


14 posted on 08/15/2011 5:55:30 PM PDT by DRey
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
Reagan was a RINO?! WE'VE BEEN HAD!!!!!!!
15 posted on 08/15/2011 5:56:35 PM PDT by DRey
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To: Minus_The_Bear
Might I suggest specifics? We begin to assemble pro/con charts, and emotional generalities serve no general good.

The first time I ever heard anything about Perry was his decision to mandate shots for teens to prevent HPV. As a pro-life leader, I was shocked to know a conservative Texas guv would think that way. I now put that bit of info on the con side of the Perry chart.

And we all appreciate specific details of his voting record by Texans, or others who have kept score, or know personal anecdotes. But to make the bald statement that he is not a Conservative is not accurate. He is not WHOLLY Conservative on a number of issues, notably immigration.

His support of Gore is bad bad bad, but it was 1988 and how old was he then? I became a Conservative just prior my 30th birthday, and cast a first Conservative vote for Reagan in 1980. Most important is: What has he been the past decade?
16 posted on 08/15/2011 5:56:54 PM PDT by jobim
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To: Minus_The_Bear

If the choice is Perry v. Bachmann I’m all in for Michele.


17 posted on 08/15/2011 5:57:13 PM PDT by PaleoBob
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To: Minus_The_Bear

Bachmann voted and I think worked for Carter’s campaign.


18 posted on 08/15/2011 5:58:04 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (Obama/Biden '12: No hope and chump change.)
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To: Minus_The_Bear

I suggest you look up Reagan’s past


19 posted on 08/15/2011 5:59:09 PM PDT by skaterboy (Hate=Love....Love=Hate)
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To: Breto

So can Reagan


20 posted on 08/15/2011 5:59:54 PM PDT by skaterboy (Hate=Love....Love=Hate)
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