Appearing Tuesday morning on Fred Dicker’s radio program, Texas Gov. Rick Perry said he’d be up for a debate with Gov. Andrew Cuomo on the best way to foster a state business climate. In keeping with Lone Star pathology, Perry believes the climate in Texas is bigger — or at least more nurturing.

“States competing against each other is how America becomes stronger,” Perry said after reading off a list of companies that had moved or expanded operations from New York to Texas.

Perry, who has not always been esteemed for his debating skills, faint-praised Cuomo for recent policy initiatives that he said displayed the Democrats’ recognition that New York needed to be, well, a lot more like Texas.

The Republican called New York’s recent improvement from 50th to 48th on the fiscally conservative Tax Foundation’s list of state tax climates “kinda small ball,” and dinged Cuomo for his failure to make a decision on whether to allow hydrofracking in the Southern Tier, comparing it to what Perry described as President Barack Obama’s indecision on the Keystone XL pipeline. He also had warmish words for Cuomo’s support for “accountable” charter schools.

Perry plans to travel to New York City on Tuesday for a two-day series of meetings with business leaders, the latest in a series of similar trips that critics have dubbed “partisan job piracy” and a naked attempt to boost Perry’s national profile.

His out-of-state efforts resulted in an obliteratingly funny pro-NYS takedown by Lewis Black of “The Daily Show.” (Black subsequently became a pitchman for Cuomo’s business-boosting efforts.)

Perry said he would make a decision about his willingness to run again sometime in 2015. Asked what he thought of the prospect of running against Andrew Cuomo in 2016, Perry chortled and said, “I don’t know about that.”

Here’s a new anti-START-UP NY ad from Perry’s group Americans for Economic Freedom:

While it’s neither here nor there, those glasses make Perry look like a beefy Robert Caro. Here’s the accompanying release from AEF: