the start of the process. he got into the race late to tons of acclaim, tons of excitement, and to he tried very hard. it wasn t like he was fred thompson or rudy giuliani. rick perry really tried. he just couldn t win anything. so it sort of got lost in the shuffle, this campaign season, once mr. perry lost so badly, but there was one remarkable moment from rick perry in the campaign that has suddenly become newly relevant in where the campaign s at now. here s how it happened. it was exactly one week before the iowa caucuses. rick perry who had been a staunch antiabortion politician exactly a week before the caucuses, he told a conservative iowa minister in front of his parishioners that he had had a change of heart on the issue of abortion. here s how we reported it at the time. another sign, i think, of rick perry banking hard for the evangelical social conservative
i mean, just about the only guy who didn t win iowa was rick perry. remember poor rick perry? he was almost the favorite at the start of the process. he got into the race late to tons of acclaim, tons of excitement, and to he tried very hard. it wasn t like he was fred thompson or rudy giuliani. rick perry really tried. he just couldn t win anything. so it sort of got lost in the shuffle, this campaign season, once mr. perry lost so badly, but there was one remarkable moment from rick perry in the campaign that has suddenly become newly relevant in where the campaign s at now. here s how it happened. it was exactly one week before the iowa caucuses. rick perry who had been a staunch antiabortion politician exactly a week before the caucuses, he told a conservative iowa minister in front of his parishioners that he had had a change of heart on the issue of abortion. here s how we reported it at the time.