If you knew shi’te from shinola you would know about Texas politics before Reagan gave the conservative dems a way out. Since Reconstruction, (you do know about Reconstruction don't you?) there was almost zero GOP in the South and Texas. To get elected to any office required being a dem (ever hear of Yeller Dog Dem?). Most of these dems were fairly conservative and just like Reagan said, the dems left him when they went liberal.
About the same time as Perry switched to GOP a mass of Texas voters left the dems and turned Texas into a very conservative GOP state.
Whether you or any of your nutty circular firing squad freeps care to admit it, Perry has been the most conservative Governor in Texas history. Your Perry algore thingy is a non-story. Find something pertinent to 2012 or STFU.
When Rick Perry was deciding to saddle up and become a Democrat politician, it was in the same election that Reagan won 64% of the Texas vote, after Reagan winning Texas with 55% in 1980.
Perry followed that up by fighting to replace Reagan with Al Gore in 1988.