I would not worry about Perry being derailed by some sort of made-up accusations.
He’s been in the public eye too long.
The dems and the media in Texas hate him and they’ve been scrounging around in his closet for skeletons for years and haven’t found a thing.
Never undrestimate the power of evil. That is straight up what this election is all about. Good and evil. Flat out.
People outside of Texas should also understand that there is basically two camps in the Republican Party. You could call them the "Bush/Hutchison" and the "Perry" camps. The two camps hate each other but the citizens are kind of ambivalent towards each other, we'll support both. However, when they come head to head the voters tend to side with the Perry camp.
Most of the dirt on Perry has been flung at him by the Bush/Hutchison camp and it has never stuck.
My long winded point is that a lot of people outside of Texas see Perry as the "second coming of George W. Bush" and nothing could be further from the truth. I would be surprised if Bush endorsed him.
If Perry's own party couldn't take him out, the Left doesn't have a chance.