“sounds like a threat to me.”
It depends on your point of view. I live here in Texas, and my dream would be for Perry to get a cabinet position, maybe Energy Secretary. It would be a double-win for us - it gets him out of Austin, so that we can (hopefully) replace him with a conservative, and he might actually do a good job, being that he does seem to understand energy (even if he has virtually no idea regarding what the rest of the federal government does).
I was in hopes that Newt would get the nomination and then bring in all the other candidates.
Paul at the Fed
Perry as VP or secdef
Bachman in the cabinet
Santorum in the cabinet
Cain as VP or in cabinet