Mr. Perry, however, is hardly a natural heir to the Texas Bush legacy or the much-maligned reputation that Mr. Bush left among both Republicans and Democrats. The blue-blooded Bush clan's dislike of the gun-slinging, coyote-shooting son of tenant farmers runs deep — from the first President George Bush on down to the family's political Svengali, Karl Rove, to state-level operatives — and Mr. Perry further offended Bush-world when, in recent years, he publicly criticized President George W. Bush on a number of issues, and questioned his fiscal conservatism.
Yet the Texas likenesses could still be an issue for Mr. Perry, particularly to the degree he tries to appeal to the more moderate electorate found in some Northern battleground states like New Hampshire, which gave Senator John McCain a victory in the 2000 Republican presidential primary.
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