As bad as Perry is, you're right about the possibility of getting someone worse. He got a lot of shit from Romney early on for allowing for instate tuition. On the other hand, when former Houston Mayor Bill White ran against him, Perry kept playing a video by the widow of a cop who was killed by an illegal alien (using their term) and blamed the "Sanctuary City" policies of the mayor. It was disgusting how he was exploiting the murder of a police officer to vilify everybody without papers.