I would vote for Perry over Obama though I admittedly don’t like the guys instincts much. My objection is to executive orders by state and federal executives making themselves the default caregivers of Americas children.
I object to his EO in this case, although given that the vaccine law gave the authority to the executive to determine which vaccines should be covered, and given that the legislature was out of session, I can “understand” why he did the EO.
the thing that bothers me most at this time with Perry is a sense I have that he is stubborn. Where Bush would never defend anything he did, Perry seems intent on defending everything. His fight when the EO objections were raised showed a bit of that; I would have hoped he would have figured out more quickly that he had screwed up.
But we also like that in our candidates. People like Sarah Palin because she says what she means and she doesn’t back down. Of course, she never makes a mistake, so there’s no need for her to back down. :-)