Re your #12 - Kinky received quite a few votes from conservatives when he ran against Rick (including mine). He is an honest man with a great sense of humor but much of the public perceives him sorta like Jesse Ventura.
He cuts to the chase. When he was running there was a perception he was against the death penalty, but when asked he stated that he wasn’t against it but that he had never seen or heard of a rich man being executed.
In the scheme of things, this quasi endorsement will likely never hit the national or Texas radar screen.
I voted for Kinky, too and I am a conservative. Kinky is decent, good and as you said ‘an honest man’. I am ready to support Perry for the white house!