He was -- in retrospect. But, if he were President today and tried to pass legislation giving amnesty to illegals, you'd tarring and feathering him.
He did things in California that weren't always conservative either than he would have been attacked for if he were running today.
Reagan is the one that always made the point that someone agrees with you 80% of the time is your friend, not your enemy. You haven't learned that.
It's people like you ripping Perry apart that make it easy for the establishment to divide conservatives and give us McCain and Romney as nominees.
It will Christie or Jeb Bush in 2016 if people like you want to rip apart someone like Perry if he ends up being the alternative to the establishment candidate.