Sep 6, 2011 ... Rick Perry's years-ago switch from the Democratic to the Republican party Puts  him in the same company as the nation's 40th president. "You're sort ... 'You know , I love your dad, and he was part of the reason I became a Republican,' but I said , 'I became a Republican sooner in my life than your dad did.' ".
In American politics, the southern strategy was a Republican Party electoral  strategy to increase political support among white voters in the South by  appealing to racism against African Americans. As the Civil Rights Movement  and dismantling of Jim Crow laws in the 1950s and 1960s visibly deepened  existing racial ...
Nov 9, 2011 ... Today, Reagan may be lionized as a tax abolitionist, says Alan Simpson, a  former Republican senator and friend of the president, but that's not true to his ...  Rather than simply trimming the federal deficit, as his GOP predecessors had  done, he set out to balance the budget and begin paying down the ...
Preparing for my 2008 debate, I came across a quote from Ronald Reagan that  perfectly expresses our need to preserve and protect American values: ... Facing  questions about his age (he was then 73 and running against the 56-year-old  Walter Mondale), Reagan shot back by saying, "I want you to know that also I will  not ...
Nov 21, 2016 ... The Party's leaders are all past the official retirement age, other than Obama, who  has governed as the charismatic and enlightened head of an atrophying body.  Did Democrats even notice? More than Republicans, they tend to turn out only  when they're inspired. The Party has allowed personality and ...
Says he "came to the Republican Party sooner in age" than Ronald Reagan.