Perry didn’t divorce his wife and put his kids in the street. Perry doesn’t support abortion. Perry didn’t walk away with “911” money. Perry certainly isn’t going to grab your guns. Like many others, he supported Rudy soley because of his stance on the war on terror and the fear that obama wouldn’t continue Bush’s WOT policies.
But Perry enthusiastically endorsed his business partner, Giuliani, who did all that.
In politics, (as everywhere else) one is known by the company one keeps.
Would any businessman worth his salt, go into business with Bernie Madoff? Course not.
And why? B/c everyone would automatically assume he was also a crook.