The Rick Perry Secessionist View

When people say, "It's not about the money," it's about the money. When a coach quits to "spend more time with my family," he was given the choice to quit or be fired. When your spokesman has to say of you, as Rev. Gov. Rick Perry staffer Mark Miner told the Texas Tribune, "He has said many times that we have a great union, and he believes it should stay that way,” he's not sold on this whole "one nation" deal.
Now, do I think Perry genuinely supports the idea of Texas secession? Based on his own quotations, yeah, I kinda do.
History lesson: The Texas Annexation of 1845 transformed the Republic of Texas into the 28th state. The Mexican-American War ensued from 1846-1848. That ended with the Mexican Cession of 1848, which extended America's southern territorial acquisitions from Mexico to the Pacific Ocean. Texas, despite statehood, claimed the eastern portion of the new territories, which included parts of modern-day Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Wyoming. The Compromise of 1850 made the disputed lands parts of other U.S. territories in exchange for assuming the Texas Republic's $10 million in debt.
President John Tyler supported annexation in 1843, but the annexation treaty was defeated 35-16 in the Senate. Upon the election of James K. Polk, a supporter of annexation, Tyler consulted with Polk and the result was the successful passage of an annexation ordinance and the writing of a Texas state constitution.
Now, here's where Rev. Gov. Perry gets confused:

New States of convenient size not exceeding four in number, in addition to said State of Texas and having sufficient population, may, hereafter by the consent of said State, be formed out of the territory thereof, which shall be entitled to admission under the provisions of the Federal Constitution.

Texas can legally lift but not separate. Politico found this statement by Rev. Gov. Perry on a YouTube post “When we came into the nation in 1845, we were a republic, we were a stand-alone nation. And one of the deals was, we can leave anytime we want. So we’re kind of thinking about that again.”

So, why would anyone want to become president of a country from which he's "kind of thinking about" seceding from? And, who would vote for someone with such treasonous views? Or for someone for whom the separation of church and state has zero importance?