Flashback: Perry for Gore, Confederate symbols & more

Stay in politics long enough and you're bound to forge some strange alliances. Take Gov. Rick Perry, for example. In 1988, as a Democrat, Perry was a pushcard-carrying member of Texans for Gore. That's right, Al Gore, who back then was stressing his southern roots. Check out this 1988 Gore campaign button sporting a Confederate battle flag symbol. (The button, pictured above left, was gathered years ago by fellow Politex blogger John Gravois).

Now, of course, Gore pops Republicans for allegedly cozying up to Confederate symbols. And you probably already knew Perry ain't for Gore no more. A few months ago, Perry was happily deriding the global warming guru, joking that "his mouth is the leading source of all that supposedly deadly carbon dioxide."

Perry's latest presidential endorsement didn't work out so well, either. Fellow Texas conservatives were aghast after he embraced Rudy Giuliani, who was basically 0 for 3 on their bedrock social issues: abortion, gays and guns.

-- Jay Root

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Buttons always look so much cooler when they are old.
But I have yet to find a Nixon button that says "Pick Dick". That would have been genius.