Ron Paul: Rick Perry was Al Gore's "cheerleader"

[RamboLiberal]

Source: CBS News

Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul is out with a new ad contrasting his support for Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign with rival Rick Perry's backing of Democrat Al Gore's 1988 presidential bid.

"The establishment called him extreme and unelectable. They said he was the wrong man for the job," an announcer says as the ad opens with photographs of Reagan. "It's why a young Texan named Ron Paul was one of only four congressmen to endorse Ronald Reagan's campaign for president, believing in Reagan's message of smaller government and lower taxes."

"After Reagan, Senator Al Gore ran for president, pledging to raise taxes and increase spending, pushing his liberal values," the announcer continues, as the background music turns ominous. "And Al Gore found a cheerleader in Texas named Rick Perry. Rick Perry helped lead Al Gore's campaign to undo the Reagan revolution, fighting to elect Al Gore President of the United States."

"Now, American must decide who to trust - Al Gore's Texas cheerleader, or the one who stood with Reagan," the ad concludes. The Paul campaign told CBS News the ad buy is in the six figures and that the spot will run in Iowa and New Hampshire.




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[MineralMan]

1. Perfect. Perry's got some 'splaining to do.

This kind of stuff is priceless.

[24601]

6. Never ask a question you don't already know the answer to - it

could come back as, Stopped Drinking."

[Lars77]

2. The fact that Reagan hugely expanded government power and spending and raised taxes..

Does not matter in the GOP universe.

They are ever more absurd.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Tweety showed the commercial.

Kiss of death for Perry! :rofl:

[24601]

7. Probably not, Reagan was a Democrat, too. His line was, "I never

left the Democratic Party, they left me."

How many here still support Lieberman just because he ran with Gore? and that was 11 years ago too.

[karynnj]

13. True - and in the case of Gore, he did move to the left

In 1988, he was the first DLC sponsored Democrat running for a Presidential nomination. His record in the House and Senate was as conservative as a Democrat gets.

It is ironic that Perry suffers by the typical Republican effort to demonize any Democratic nominee as "very liberal" and because Gore has moved to the left since he ran for President and the image Republican voters may have of Gore is likely very different from his 1988 image.

[EvilMonsanto]

4. Good

I really dislike Perry

Fox News gave him so much media attention when he still wasn't even running

That to me raises more eyebrows than I have

[me b zola]

5. because according to Ron Paul the ability to breath is a bad thing n/t

[bongbong]

8. Breathing?

Breathing is very overrated! It is much more important that a billionaire gets to buy another yacht than it is for some less-than-billionaire to breathe.

[DesertFlower]

9. let them bash each other -- better for us.

[AlbertCat]

12. let them bash each other -- better for us.

Indeed!

It's Clash of the Dumbfucks!

Perry and Paul could suck all the intelligence out of a football stadium in less than 5 seconds.

Both are clueless, AND completely disingenuous. I don't believe either of them really means anything they passionately call for. Fake from top to bottom.

Where's Eugene Ionesco when you need him? If this isn't Rhinoceros I don't know what is.

[southmost]

10. to the politically illiterate

this may make Perry look like a centrist , an independent if you will, and mask his extreme right wing tendencies

[EvilMonsanto]

11. Nah

I'd think that only 0.00000006% of liberals would vote for Perry and they would all be from Texas

[ClarkUSA]

14. Too bad Ron Paul is being largely ignored by the GOP-friendly corporate MSM.

[Skittles]

16. hey - that is acutally TRUE!

I knew you had it in you :D

[totodeinhere]

15. I don't think that Paul's argument is going to fly. A lot of Southern Republicans used to be

Southern Democrats. And Ed Schultz used to be a Republican. Things change.

[NOMOREDRUGWAR]

17. Many Southern Democrats switched to being Republicans

because their parents were Dixiecrats and they found a home in the new racist Republican Party. Republicans like to claim that more of them voted for the Civil Rights Act, but those weren't Southern Republicans, and almost every Democrat in the House and Senate that voted against the Civil Rights Act was a Southerner. The parties basically switched places after 1964.

[Blue_Tires]

18. Does Paul *really* want to play games with the Wayback Machine?

He'd lose that fight in 30 seconds, not that I care one way or the other -- Let them bloody each other up...