OK, but if you’ve been around Texas for long, you know he doesn’t pick battles he don’t think he can win.
He’s not the type to run for POTUS so he can brag about it, and you know it. He’d only do it if the math supported the move.
And he has (pre-America) Ancient Establishment against him, he knows it yet he presses. Texas IS a whole ‘nother country, always has been, and has always used its trade advantages to tell DC how and where to stick it (if you don’t count the ‘re-construction’).
Now there's some tribal support, if I ever saw it. I think Perry supporters have nothing left, but to simply circle the wagons and soldier on because he's their favorite son. He's certainly not giving anyone else a compelling reason to support him.
Perry's record and stance on the issues was already enough to ping the radar of most well-informed conservatives, but his onstage gaffes sealed his fate. He will not recover from these public fumbles.