I'm from the Chicago area, and I would consider Perry to be LESS conservative than the tea-party candidate (Bill Brady) who won the GOP nomination for Governor of Illinois last year.
By Illinois standards, Perry would be a establishment Republican who TALKS super conservative but governs as a mushy right-of-center Republican. He'd be about where state Senator Kirk Dillard is on the political spectrum (Dillard was the "conservative" candidate who lost the primary after it was discovered he praised then Senator Obama in 2007 TV ads)
What are some issues on which you and Gov. Perry disagree?
I’m glad that you mentioned State Sen. Dillard. Do you know of a conservative who will oppose him, in the 2012 primary? I hope that he’ll lose because he voted for the state dream act and because he’s been a state senator since 1993. 20 years is long enough.