Perhaps all you say is true. I stress, perhaps. Even so, Perry (nor anyone else) has the power to single-handedly make the changes in this proposal. What Perry is doing, badly IMO, is trying to correct course of a shipwrecked campaign - period. Even Reagan, of whom Perry would not be fit to carry water for, would not have played the hand Perry has played here, and Reagan had the skills needed to manuever the shark infested waters of D.C. Perry has demonstrated no facility to be at that level.
You have to remember Perry has the support of all the Republican governors as their leader, men and women who want
the same rollbacks (tort reform, voterID, no income tax, EPA stuffed in a burlap bag and fed to the catfish, right-to-work, etc) as we either have or are working on. That’s serious ground game in itself.
Not to mention the ability to turn Statehouses solid red, and
punish the union leeches to the extent possible.
Reagan had it way harder than Perry, he wasn’t coming off a historic sweep like November 2010 was. Perry has taken every advantage to forward the movement and entrench it within the States.
It’s as silent and amorphous as the TEA party itself, and it is replicating itself everyday. Do you wonder why Newt, the essential Fed Guy, started talking states’ rights out of nowhere last week? He sees where the herd is heading, and wants to get out in front of it.
You do understand that in order to start doing something you first must have a plan. He is laying out his vision of reform. He knows that he can’t make the changes all by himself. Think of it as planting the seed in the voters mind.