Yes, Perry was member of the Democratic party in college. He favored improved health care for women, better social programs, and the like.
He discovered that pushing bigotry and hatred, as well as dissing for women, the poor, and minorities in general was easier (you don’t have to think or show decency in the modern Republican world after all) and single joins the party of repression.

Of course that’s complete bullshit since Clinton actually was reducing the defecit and shrub turned that not only around but fired off a masssive global recession AND a multi-trillion unpaid war, turning the entire economy round and into the shitter. To then blame Obama for.

Because you morons “know” that you have all the right ideas and if reality shows otherwise, it must be someone else’s fault.

Bullshit. What about republican congress? Or the Senate?

Are you going to insist that even when you were in charge of both congress AND the senate AND the presidency (though not all three at the same time) you were so weak that your president could be manipulated into doing the wrong thing and nobody could speak to the president who wasn’t a democrat?!!?!?!?

You’re just a fucking idiot, aren’t you.

Yes, we all remember when President Obama’s policies destroyed the economy and all the growth left to him by President Bush.

Oh, wait, that didn’t happen at all. It’s only in your imagination.

In what way were you really screwed? The global recession happened before Obama, so any screw was already baked in by Shrub’s actions before him.

And please explain how it was a nobel prize winner who made that happen.

This isn’t intelligence envy, so common in the rightwing, is it?

His father grew cotton and was a local politician, so he went to A&M and was in the Corps. The “A&M” is especially pertinent to Perry’s education. He is relatively tall and nice looking, so he was a Yell Leader which guaranteed him very useful social connections. Aggies stick together.

Back in this era the tuition for all 4 years at A&M was probably about $500, total. The Corps and being a Yell Leader probably kept him in school. Clearly, he went to the best school possible for his future. Getting an education was not that important to him, but he was able to put in a minimal effort to get the degree.

So, this fall watch a Texas A&M football game and take note of the Yell Leaders. This is what motivated Rick Perry to put in the effort sufficient to get a C in Sheep and Goats.

Like many politicians, including pretty much the entirety of one of our two major political parties, Perry has zero intellectual curiosity about how this world really works. He’s not a total dumbass, but he knows who is calling the shots and knows how to follow orders. So, effectively, he is a dumbass.

I think Perry at Energy is not quite the Doomsday Appointment that some of the rest of Cabinet might be. Maybe only some parts of west Texas will be rendered a bit more uninhabitable by his actions. I could live with that. Maybe.

Obama had a Nobel Prize winner in charge of the Department of Energy, and that’s when we were really screwed. He said he wanted gas prices to go to the level of Europe.