Didn’t Rove talk Perry into becoming a republican and become Bush’s lieutenant governor. A little ironic that things would end up this way.
I don’t know the intricacies and intrigue, the inside baseball.
Perry didn’t need much persuasion to become a Republican. The new national Dems left him behind, just like Reagan said the old Dem party left him. Perry was a Dem in a family and a state in which that was the history, that’s what people were. You didn’t question it, until you began to see the truth of where that party was going and that you were powerless to stop it.
I read that Rove/the Bushes wanted Perry to run a nicey nice campaign against John Sharp for Lt. Governor, but that Perry rejected his advice and went for the jugular because he judged he had to in order to win.
I don’t know...I wasn’t there.
But if Perry didn’t play ball the way they advised him, stands to reason a rift developed.