Perry promised us Texans that he wouldn't run for President if we elected him to a third term. We kept our part of the bargain.
That complaint comes across to me in a similar way to how a parent might take away the keys away from his teen son because that son broke a promise to night drive at night because he chose to break that promise to save a friend’s life because some Latino gang was trying to take his life.
“A promise is a promise!”, you cried.
Unless you don’t believe that America teeters in the edge from the abyss, some promises are better off not kept.