Johnny my man, that’s your opinion, but that puts you in a spot of not being with most conservative voters in Texas.
Governors and the POTUS are first and foremost cheerleaders.
If you think the Governor doesn’t matter, try remembering all those Yellerdog dems Texas suffered through and who kept us about equal to Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas for decades.
Whether you, or the little Martian ronpaul think much of Perry, you can not argue that Texas has indeed prospered while he has been Governor.
But that's because people like me won't put up with good-ole-boys like Dewhurst and Strauss and Cornyn. It'll take some time with Strauss and Cornyn, but Dewhurst is gone.
Perry is NOT a conservative. His support for the Trans-Texas Corridor, and the STD vaccine for Texas schoolgirls pretty well prove that.
That he worked for the Gore campaign before Rove (a liberal republican) talked him into switching sides proves the point.
Perry is a good Republican. But that doesn't mean he's conservative.
I'll be happy with Abbott, since Perry doesn't matter anymore in Texas politics.
And he doesn't have a shot at national politics.
/johnny