“Rick Perry will take Texas and little else (he’s a VP player at this point).”
Ummm... No. Rick Perry will NEVER take Texas now that Cruz is on the scene. Cruz is immensely popular in Texas, much more so than Perry could ever hope to be.
I'll believe that if you'll explain to me how Cruz got a lower percentage of the Texas vote in Nov 2012 than the Massachusetts Godfather of Obamacare that none of us FReepers liked at all.