You know he was a democrat back in the day before it was necessary to be a republican to win in Texas...
Yes, we're all painfully aware of that in Texas, and that Gov. Perry has a short list of about 290 big-bucks contributors for whom he saves all his gee-ing and haw-ing. If you're not on the list ....
I got beaten up on our Texas state board for taking an "anybody but Perry" line, back in 2011 when Perry was up for reelection as governor. I had a bad feeling the PTB would put him up as a presidential candidate, guaranteeing that their open-borders, internationalist policies would go forward, submerging the State of Texas in low-wage border-jumpers (who are also cultural refuseniks in many places) and guaranteeing that the Democrats would eventually get control of Texas again and lock the GOP out of the White House for the next 200 years.