How can you tell the difference? Rick Perry does not flip flop on his positions. Even if they are unpopular, he stands by them. How many statewide healthcare plans did he enact? Rick Perry does not support cap and trade to curtail global warming.
That's odd, I seem to recall Ricardo Mentalblock defending his executive order to Texans as if he were defending the Alamo. Little Michele Bachmann slaps him in a debate, then suddenly the EO was "the wrong way to go" and he should have had an "opt in" instead of an "opt out"