I remember sharing my gut feelings and observations about Perry early in the primary. I'm in Texas, and read through his phoney baloney 'conservatism' a long time ago. I was honestly shocked that so many of my fellow Texans shot me down over it. They had to have seen the same things I had.
Now he's vindicated my perceptions in spades. Despite the fact that the Tea Party gave him their unbridled support in his last run for Governor, and not an insignificant amount of support for his presidential bid, he comes out and supports his crony - a man who's done everything in his power to thwart the will of conservatives in Texas.
I never did understand the support for Perry among conservatives. Guys like him and Dewhurst, are establishment machine politicians, who are far out of alignment with patriotic, Tea Party conservatives.
I've never seen Perry as anything but a leftist political hack who changed parties for political gain. My mayor did the exact same thing. He was a lifelong democRAT and switched parties because he thought it would help him politically. The same can be said of Perry. Thankfully, Perry continues to torpedo any chance he may have had of ever becoming POTUS and will stay in Texas where he belongs.