Palin ran for VP for two months.
Perry will be running for 14 months. He should at the very least turn all duties over to the Lt. Gov. and he should stop drawing a paycheck.
Can't do both things at the same time.
Hey FreeReign, get some history lesson. Governors that run for President also preside over the Governorship during that time. The only recent one who did not is Romney.
Or, he could be done by February. It doesn’t really matter a lot, the Texas legislature isn’t in session again until 2013. He will be done by then, one way or the other.