Paul wasn't running for office.
And Saint Ricky isn't saving souls.
So it seems that if God can choose one who murdered his people to spread the Gospel, it is comparatively a small thing for Perry to repudiate a party that took a huge left turn.
Lots of good Americans were Democrats in the South in the 1980s and only a handful of people like you really have a problem with that.
Dems then and today are two different species.