Perry isn’t a staunch anything. He’s a pandering opportunist with a penchant for cronyism.
For the life of me, I’ll never understand why people would condemn Obama for Solyndra and Rezko land deals while tolerating such behavior from our own side.
Perry’s dealings with Merck are reprehensible as is the shameless corruption that has occurred with the ETF.
If you want to lose the Tea Party, vote for Perry. If you want to nominate a guy who has a graveyard’s worth of skeletons in his closet, vote for Perry.
There are two kinds of politicians: those that are pandering opportunists, and those who will become pandering opportunists.