uh oh...Looks like Perry may have a bit of a teabagger purity test problem...

[tex-wyo-dem]

Rick Perry backed an already-climate-crusading Al Gore in '88

By BOB KING | 8/15/11 6:32 PM EDT

Texas Gov. Rick Perry may have forgotten a thing or two about the Al Gore presidential campaign he helped lead in 1988.

In an interview with an Iowa radio station on Monday, the Republican presidential contender explained his role as the Gore campaign’s Texas chairman by saying that “this was Al Gore before he invented the Internet and got to be Mr. Global Warming.”

But in fact, global warming was already a significant theme for Gore in 1987 and 1988 — long before his activism led to several books, a Nobel Prize and a part in an Academy Award-winning film. It was also well before the right gave him the "Mr. Ozone" nickname and talk radio heaped endless mockery on the future vice president.

Gore, then a young Tennessee senator trying to break out in a crowded Democratic field, mentioned the warming planet as one of his priorities for his presidential campaign in April 1987, according to news coverage at the time.

<more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/61428.html>

[Sportsguy]

1. Ooooooo, Good Catch!

K & R

[qb]

2. Radioactive Tea from Texas?

:wow:

[emulatorloo]

3. Teabaggers have no problem with their politicians re-writing history, so he will be OK

Thanks for the article though, very interesting.

[tex-wyo-dem]

5. Well, they sure jumped all over Newt...

about the commercial with Pelosi (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/59919.html)...

Of course, this was more recent.

One can hope, though :evilgrin:

[EC]

4. I don't remember what year "Earth in the Balance"

came out, but Gore has always been "mr. ozone" as far as I can remember.

[Davis_X_Machina]

6. 1992. It was a campaign issue. n/t

[ZombieHorde]

7. Al Gore never claimed he invented the internet.

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp

[demwing]

11. pshaw...facts dont mean nuthin'

we expect to win this argument with facts, but they expect to keep us arguing the facts while they get busy doing whatever he hell they like.

[_ed_]

8. Mitt Romney seems to be a front-runner, so

Republicans obviously don't care about "flip-flopping" anymore.

[Bok_Tukalo]

9. If the so-called Tea Party wing of the Republican Party has issues with Perry

... it will be his many comments concerning immigration and his policy positions with regards to the undocumented in this country. I am waiting for both Bachmann and Romney (mostly Bachmann) to challenge him on it and see whether or not he eschews previous statements.

[ZombieHorde]

10. I checked FR, and they seem disturbed by this news...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2764195/posts

[demwing]

12. Maybe Al Gore could endorse Perry?

that would bury Perry in a hurry.

[ZombieHorde]

13. That would be hilarious! nt

[tex-wyo-dem]

14. That would be pretty genius, really :-) n/t