[CA Conservative]

It is a safe assumption that Perry voted for his party in 1980 as he had in 1976, and when you realize that Perry was running for office in 1984 and that in 1988, he sought out the position of Campaign Chairman for Al Gore against HW Bush, then yes, Perry was just a normal democrat official, and activist, voting for his party.

Okay, so you admit that you are making unsubstantiated assumptions and making them sound like fact. Glad we have that out in the open.

In fact, you have no way of knowing how Perry voted except for his public statements. From that we know that he voted for Carter over Ford (Southern Democrat over northern pro-choice liberal Republican) and Bush 41 over Dukakis (southern moderate Republican over northern liberal Democrat). In both of those cases, he voted for the putatively more conservative candidate over the more liberal candidate. So why do you think he would have voted differently in the intervening elections?

[fieldmarshaldj]

And back to the subject of this thread...

Did Perry vote for Reagan ?

[ansel12]

Don’t be a child, when a man signs up to run for office as a democrat in the same year that Reagan was winning 64% of his state then we know how he voted, and when he follows that up with running the campaign to defeat Reagan’s veep the next election, it writes it in stone.