Perry ducks comparisons to Bush

Texas Gov. Rick Perry may have just entered the presidential race, but there is already something familiar about the man — and it’s not necessarily something that’s going to help him.

Perry is already being compared with the last Texas governor to ascend to the White House, George W. Bush. Besides being Republicans and Texas governors, the two men share a military veteran’s status, an anti-elitist viewpoint and a cowboy swagger. Perry, in fact, was Bush’s lieutenant governor and rose to the governor’s office when Bush made his first presidential bid in 1999.