Perry is my Governor and I think it is too early to decide whether I will vote for him or not. But I am prepared to give him a small break for tonight. We have a ton of problems here in Texas with our massive wildfires, lack of airplanes and resources to fight them, conflicts with the U.S. Forestry Service, etc. and he has spent the last two days here attending to business. I am sure that did interfere somewhat with his prep time and his inability to focus - none of the other candidates have quite as much on their plate as he does right now. The question relating to naming the scientists with whom you disagree was certainly a GOTCHA - kind of like some of the questions Sarah received in 2008. As a state the inability to function because of governmental regulations is always in our face - something else that none of the other candidates deal with on a day-to-day basis.
It seemed like everyone else was already on the highway driving 65 and Perry was still in the entrance lane trying to get up to speed.