I suppose this is where some jerk points out to the absolutists that Reagan voted for FDR, probably all four times. But we shouldn’t vote for anyone who was ever a Democrat.
We probably also shouldn’t mention that Algore was pretending to be prolife back then.
Reagan and most of America having voted for FDR in a long distant pre WWII, pre Cold War history, is no reason for being a democrat after the 1960s and Vietnam and JFK and LBJ, Roe v Wade, Jimmy Carter and the dismantling of the CIA, and the anti-military shift of the Democrats and the Reagan Revolution, and supporting Al Gore against Reagan’s veep in 1988.
That is why Reagan supported and campaigned only for Republican Presidential candidates starting in the 1952 election.
Were you confused about the Democrat Party in 1988? Does anyone here really think that Perry secretly voted for Reagan just as he himself was signing up to become a leader within the Democrat Party, and then in 1988 going back to fighting to elect Al Gore and his 9 ACU rating to defeat Reagan’s veep?