Texas Best for Business! Perry Best for VP?

For the eighth consecutive year, CEOs named Texas the best place to do business, according to the latest Chief Executive magazine annual survey of 650 business leaders from all over the country on topics relating to tax and regulation, quality of workforce, and living environment.
Texas excels not only in the petroleum sector, but also manufacturing, technology and alternative energy. In fact, Texas is now the leading state in wind energy production, according to the Energy Information Administration.
Texas, like many of the top states in this year's CEO survey, is a right-to-work state. Chief Executive magazine says that “labor force flexibility is highly sought after when a business seeks a location.” Economists have found that right-to-work areas “grow faster than other states, have higher employment and attract more inward migration,” says Chief Executive.
There’s been a real boom in job creation in Texas: From June 2009 through July 2011, the number of jobs in Texas grew by 328,000 - almost half of all the jobs added in the entire US.
And jobs attract people outside of Texas who have migrated from all over, moving approximately $17.5 billion net adjusted gross income into the state. Of the 808,000 people who have moved to Texas from 2000 to 2010, about 225,000 came from California, bringing with them a net adjusted gross income of about $4.5 billion, according to the Tax Foundation’s new State to State Migration Data Tool. More than 100,000 people from Louisiana have moved to their neighboring state, followed by residents from Illinois, New York and Michigan.

My Fort Worth cousin is now waving the Lone Star and doing cartwheels!

So, dear readers, my question is : Why isn't Rick Perry, who happens to have been governor of Texas during the past eight years, at the top of Mitt Romney's Vice President list???
We all remember Rick Perry. He arrived late in the GOP debate era and quickly fell on hard times because he forgot details for answers. This prompted the media, as well as the other GOP presidential candidates, to jump all over Perry, calling him unprepared and untried.
In fact, Rick Perry pretty much became the media's whipping boy for conservative GOP politicians : rich, handsome, with Southern accents and dumb.
Well, it wasn't and is not so. Rick Perry has a record to equal Mitt Romney's. So, why oh why aren't they the ticket. If one business leader will be good for the American economy, it makes sense that two would be even better. America can ill afford to refuse the help of leaders who actually have a winning record on job creation and business development.

And, about that "dumb" handle applied so dramatically by the media to Rick Perry -- I'd say that forgetting a few details now and then is a whole lot better than believing you know all the answers, even after they've been proven to be completely wrong...are you listening, Barak Obama?