Perry is a lying, two-faced, amnesty friendly, tax hiking, big spending RINO. But you’d have to live n Texas to know that. The secession talk from Perry was just a ploy for getting conservatives to vote for him in the primary (our blonde imbecile senator is running against him - and she is as bad as Perry...probably worse)
I also thought that he was being pretty stand-up on the TARP issue. I live in Missouri though, so I have only been exposed to Perry starting with the tea parties.