If people want to hop aboard the Perry express (round trip to Mexico City) that's one thing.
But all these self-righteous ninnies trying to sell that "Gore was a conservative democrat" in a foolhearty effort to sanitize Perry's past, GMAFB you clowns.
Gore may have been pro-life, at least officially but that's IT.
We have a responsibly to shoot that garbage down so none of the wide-eyed types fall for it but you know what the only proper response is?
"Talk to the hand". A stupid reply for a stupid statement.
I'd like to hear Perry say whether or not he voted for Jimmuh, Mondale, and Dukakis.
If he did, hey Reagan was once a liberal democrat who woke up. Michelle Bachmann was raised a rat and woke up in college I think it was. Romney was an independent during Reagan-Bush he doesn't want to go back to Reagan-Bush, oops never mind that last one.
People can change their views but this 1980's Texas were most of the democrats were conservative and Al Gore was "somewhat conservative" exists only in fairy tales.
Absurd, yup. I said earlier if you have to do that much twisting and spinning and lying to justify your “Conservative” candidate, neither you or your candidate are. Conservatism is what it is, you don’t need to lie about it. Liberalism, however... that is all about the twisting and spinning and lying because when you get right down to it, hardly anyone wants it, and it never works.
I dont care who Perry voted for in 1980 > 30 years ago. He just signed a Texas hate Crimes bill and bragged about supporting a Texas Dream act for illegals. Those are recent.
Apprently Gore wasn't even pro-life in '88. Some freeper looked into it and Gore had a fairly pro-life voting record in the late 70s and early 80s when he was a local Congressman, but by the time he became a U.S. Senator in '85 he began voting pro-abortion. By '87-'88 he was definitely in the pro-abortion camp and anyone paying attention knew it. It seems Gore was even getting some heat over it when ran for President as a "social moderate" so he did what abortion-loving Mark Kirk does and put out a letter saying he was against making taxpayers pay for abortion. He used lots of weasel words in that letter like saying that abortion was "ARGUABLY the taking of a human life" (note that Gore didn't say HE believed abortion was the taking of a human life, just that people have argued that). And of course, like Mark Kirk, Gore didn't actually vote against using taxpayers money to fund abortion, he just claimed to be against it in public.
These Perry fans are really trying to weasel out of the facts too. Now after it's been established that Gore WAS a big "global warming" alarmist in the 1980s, they're splitting hairs and saying Perry was correct that Gore wasn't known as "Mr. Global Warming" back then because there's no documented proof that was his NICKNAME at the time (I don't even think it's his official nickname now!)
My respect for Perry and his fans would greatly increase if Perry could simply man up and say "I support Al Gore's liberal platform in 1988 and I regret it. I'm sorry I bought into the liberal agenda and opposed Ronald Reagan's policies". But no, they will argue to death that Perry was a staunch conservative back then and the southern RATs were to the right of Reagan.
Honesty goes a long way in politics.