With that in mind, don't be too surprised by his adamant denial of rumors that he might follow in the footsteps of the man he replaced in Austin, George W. Bush, and run for president in 2012. It's not that Perry doesn't have ambition, he told Fox's Chris Wallace yesterday -- it's that he thinks the Governor of Texas will soon be more powerful than the President.
"I think being the governor of a state like Texas...is a more pivotal job in the future," Perry said when Wallace asked him about running for President. "I do indeed hope that there's someone in the future that says, 'I'm going to go to Washington, try to get back to our Constitutional roots and devolve this centralization of government back to the states.' So why would you want to be up there if the action is down here in the states?"
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