You’ve clearly made up your mind already based on very limited information and very poor reasoning. That you were “actually never with them” simply means that your choice of political party was less informed by experience and mature reflection than was Perry’s and therefore is not as commendable as was Perry’s switch. As to the matter of the changing nature of Texas politics - there are plenty of democrats who are, or who moved, far toward the conservative end of the spectrum, so there is no basis for concluding that Perry switched simply because the Texas political spectrum was shifting.
For all intents and purposes you appear to have simply decided that you dislike Perry, most likely for rather trivial issues like the idiotic tempest-in-a-teapot over the in-state tuition thing and the Gardasil thing. So be it, you are as entitled to make bad decisions as are the democrats.
Lol, that I was never really with them means I was a teenager and couldn't vote. That I chose to go with the more conservative party around age 20, in the middle of the '60s turmoil, shows that I saw through the noise and uproar of that era and made a decision many, many years sooner than Rick Perry was able to make the same decision. Most southerners were able to make that decision, not just me. And not Rick Perry.
Your post is basically a convoluted and unsuccessful attempt to sugar coat Rick Perry's failure to make the right decision sooner.