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

[jakeXT]

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.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/61428.html#ixzz1VDkILOC6

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. Rick wouldn't lie.

:patriot:

[indurancevile]

2. interesting. perry switched parties the year after & unseated jim hightower as agriculture

comissioner.

father a rancher -- cotton.

[jakeXT]

3. Looks like Jim isn't impressed

Jim Hightower: Rick Perry Peddling Texas Snake Oil to Republican Faithful

Step right up, ladies and gentlemen, and get your ticket to see “Rick the Wonder Worker!”

Texas Gov. Rick Perry is less than revered back home, where he is widely ridiculed as Gov. Good Hair. So he’s now on the road with a traveling medicine show, billing himself as the “Texas Miracle Man.” From New York to New Orleans, he’s been wowing the Republican hard core by telling astounding tales of his job-creating prowess in our state, suggesting he can do for America what he’s done for Texas.

Such GOP sparklies as Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich are hailing the economic wunderkind, and his roadshow spiel has prompted some party stalwarts to tout him for the presidency, hoping he can do for America what he has done for Texas. As a giddy New Yorker put it, “We want a piece of that!”

Hold it right there. First, while the Texas unemployment rate of 8 percent is 1 percent lower than the national rate, 23 other states are doing even better — including New York. Also, his self-touted record of job growth is essentially the same as Democratic Gov. Ann Richards produced and far lower than what Texas had under George W. Bush’s governorship.

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http://www.noozhawk.com/article/062311_jim_hightower_rick_perry_peddling_texas_snake_oil_to_republicans/

[Lone_Star_Dem]

4. Heh. That came out a little faster than I thought it would.

I can't help but wonder if this was intentional on the part of Perry's campaign. The old get it out and there and wear it out before things heat up in the race technique, prehaps?

[jakeXT]

5. probably the callers of that radio show... not that some journalist would come up with it.

[jakeXT]

6. shameless kick /nt