Thanks for the link. I normally try and avoid anything written by the leftists ay Politico, however, I read the story. I think you're gonna make yourself crazy radically changing your opinion with every story you read. Back in the late 80's, I was a scientist working in a lab M-F. I read all the literature I could find so I'd be current.
Anthropogenic global warming wasn't on anyone's radar back then except for Algore. No one was trying to destroy the global economy back then based on a bunch of fabricated data. I think I'll give Perry a pass for that.
Here are some of my favorite quotes from that article:
In a December 2009 speech to builders in Dallas, Perry said a lot had changed in the years since he worked on Gore’s campaign: “I certainly got religion. I think he’s gone to hell.”
In a 2007 speech to Californian Republicans, Perry said: "I've heard Al Gore talk about man-made global warming so much that I'm starting to think that his mouth is the leading source of all that supposedly deadly carbon dioxide."
There are some legitimate issues where Perry deserves criticism. Then there are others that are much ado about nothing. Yours appear to be with the latter.
Maybe so--but Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, and Sarah Palin ALWAYS make sense. Why bother with someone who sometimes does, sometimes doesn't, sometimes has, sometimes hasn't???
Perry's appeal is underwhelming.