It’s fair to say that Perry took advantage of the governorship he inherited from George W. Bush. He didn’t reverse its right-to-work laws or pass a bunch of regulation or raise taxes. But then no Republican governor could get away with that. Aside from tort reform (which hasn’t improved the availability of affordable health care), however, he did not build or innovate or reform. If the task for the next president is to fix problems, remodel entitlement programs, redesign a tax system and construct an effective foreign policy, there is precious little in his background to show he is able to complete those tasks. He is an expert at aggrandizing power, tending to donors and using the levers of power and taxpayer dollars to reward friends and punish opponents. Unfortunately, those “talents” are the last thing we need in D.C. More to the point, that behavior is what Tea Partyers are trying to eliminate.