There is such a vast difference in what someone from Texas would consider conservative, and someone in New Jersey or California.
Then, within the vastness of Texas, there is going to be a difference in what someone from the Valley, Austin, or the Texas Hill Country some 30 miles west of San Antonio would consider Conservative.
In the last Governor’s race here in Texas, Perry got about 55% of the vote statewide, but in my county he got just under 73% of the vote.
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)
His fan club is gauging how conservative he is based on his empty rhetoric (which is grade A, even over the top sometimes) not his record.
I WISH he was the solid conservative some people think. The facts paint another picture. I don’t feel like playing the fool this time like I did with W.