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From what I've seen of him he's a Romney clone - nice presentation but takes whatever position would garner him the most support.

Texas doesn't have any analog of RomneyCare™ That is the 800# gorilla in the room.

Texas also has by design a weak Governor while having a strong Lt Governor (a role that Perry once held), so comparing governorships is rather silly.

While Perry went to conservative Texas A&M, worked a cotton business and became a captain in the USAF, Romney went to Marxist Stanford then religious haven BYU before spreading Mormonism in France for a few years before landing a great gig with Bill Bain where he was an outstanding protege leading to Romney being one of the best in the field in handling leveraged buyouts.

Perry's life is one brought from the cotton fields of Texas, the agricultural school of A&M and the military of the united States before being what appears to be a life long politician who has a record of fiscal austerity. I am sure that his Rolodex is full of politicians and friends of politicians.

Romney is the stereotypical East coast liberal silver spoon, a veritable rise from riches to riches. His religion forces him to live a structured and highly regulated life. His ambition drives him to succeed in terms of rising to the top. Romney has demonstrated that he is one of the best in dealing with highly in debt, managerially screwed up organizations that can be brought back to life with the proper management. As a liquidator, Romney's track record is one of destroying jobs - in a good way, that is, cutting dead-wood while finding and nurturing the profitable branches.

The problem with Romney outside of that obscenity of RomneyCare™ is that he is one man against an army of literally millions who diametrically oppose pruning government. In order for Romney to succeed, he would have to have a major retrofit of every department, replacing high level bureaucrats who have long established fiefdoms and empires with private, pro-business, top drawer managers who are willing to work themselves out of a job. Good luck with that. Those kind of people are in high demand in the private sector and a G-15 paycheck without stock options and nine figure performance bonuses isn't going to attract the best and brightest - only the most craven, criminal and corrupt.

Given the reality of the political landscape, Romney would be a failed and frustrated Executive. Reagan lamented that his ideological influence only went Secretary level deep as the entrenched bureaucracy knew that they would be there long after Reagan & Co. left. Romney faces several orders of magnitude worse than same problem. Prediction: EPIC FAIL.

Perry, on the other hand, is a creature of the bureaucracy, after his first successful election, all he knows is politics, and a very good-ol-boy network that is typical Texas, where the GOP may have the majority in the House but they elected a pervert, stab-you-in-the-back Progressive as their Speaker. Perry knows how to work with a highly dysfunctional Legislature that meets every two years to engineer more insanity to foist on their fellow Texans - and yet Texas still continues on.

I'm not a Perry fan, I would prefer a Palin since her Rolodex is probably much more in tune with Conservatives than Perry's or Romney's. OTOH, Perry is no friend of George Bush, some would say that their relationship is "complex" in that while the Bush family clearly hates Perry Perry is not antagonistic to the Bushes. I don't know what Perry's Cabinet would look like, maybe second benchers of the same team, maybe something surprising.

Removing Perry from Texas would likely/hopefully get us Greg Abbott who presently is the best Attorney General, speaking in terms of character and integrity, in the US right now. Texas doesn't deserve the likes of Abbott, but would certainly benefit, and the US doesn't deserve the likes of Perry, but would certainly benefit.