He got there through cheating. We had FReeper eye-witness accounts of that. I wish that I had bookmarked the posts. The surrender monkeys in the GOP hand picked him just like they did McCain.
Evidently he didn’t cheat enough because he lost to Obama.
And if you get cheated you deserve to lose. Sorry, Perry was a lame candidate and constantly shot himself in the foot with his “debate” answers. If Romney had run against Obama the way he ran against the other Republican’s he’d be in the White House now. But if the other Republicans had been better at defeating Romney, the story would be different. When you know someone is cheating, it’s up to you to either change the rules or adapt.