1. Experience in managing a business or a State.
2. The ability to choose an intelligent staff.
3. A history of strong ethical and moral values.
4. The intelligence to change course when faced with a collision (i.e., it's not working so quit and try something else).
5. A reverence for the Constitution, particularly the 2nd Amendment.
Extra points for military service! Order not indicative of importance as I feel all are equally important. Notice education is not mentioned.
“4. The intelligence to change course when faced with a collision (i.e., it’s not working so quit and try something else).”
Perry has been criticized on gardasil and on Trans-Texas Corridor. But in both of those cases, when he got a backlash, he did adapt and change course.
He doesn’t seem to have Bush’s stubbornness and Obama’s arrogance, at least.