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
Perry probably started off as a conservative democrat, like most Texans used to be (except my father). He changed to Republican when he realized that he was more in line with them. I see that as a good thing. As far as the Gardisil thing, he listened to the shouts of NO NO NO and he dropped the idea. That is what I want a politician to do...... listen and act on what he heard the citizens say.