As someone that is "Fed Up" with government, Rick Perry seems to have "come to his senses" after a 27 year career of just being so damn "Fed Up" that he can't stand it. I wonder if he and Al Gore are on speaking terms? 
Peace
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Rick Perry served as Texas campaign chairman of Al Gore '88
Posted by Matt Ortega at 6/23/2011 03:49:00 PM
Here's a potential hiccup in a Perry bid for the GOP nomination: he was "ozone man" Al Gore's Texas Chairman in 1988.
EnviroKnow's Josh Nelson notes:Rick Perry, who entered the Texas legislature as a Democrat in 1984, served as Al Gore’s Texas Campaign Chairman in the 1988 presidential campaign. Soon after the campaign, Perry switched parties and was elected Texas Agriculture Commissioner as a Republican in 1990. “Going through that (Gore experience) was part of what started me through the process of changing parties in 1989,” Perry later said. “I came to my senses.” [...]
And while Gore was a moderate at the time on some issues (abortion, gun control, prayer in schools), he was already a committed environmentalist. 11 years before Perry chaired Gore’s presidential campaign in Texas, in 1976, Gore held the first Congressional hearings on climate change. Gore’s reputation on environment issues was so solidified by 1988 that the first President Bush took to the habit of calling him ozone man.
Rick Perry prides himself on his anti-environmental credentials as Texas Governor. But if and when he decides to run for President, whether it is in the next few weeks or in 2016, he’ll undoubtedly have to explain all of this to the Republican base.