PEMBROKE — As the presidential buzz around Texas Gov. Rick Perry continues, local conservatives say they’re not quite sure whether to support him or former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

But they still have good things to say about Perry.

“I haven’t decided. But I’m really enthused by his joining the race,” said Speaker of the New Hampshire House, William O’Brien, R-Mont Vernon, at a Perry campaign stop in Pembroke Thursday.

During his visit to Epoch, a modular home production business on Route 106, Perry repeatedly called for reduced regulations to keep businesses from outsourcing jobs from the United States.

At one point, he said New Hampshire is a model for the rest of the country.

“It’s time to bring those same principles to Washington, D.C.,” Perry said.

Dave Quinn of Auburn, who’s worked at Epoch three years, is a registered independent but usually votes Republican. He’s still undecided but said he’s leaning toward Perry over Romney.

“I like his big push on deregulation,” Quinn said. “That push to give control back to the people, that’s what’s really swaying my position to support Gov. Perry over Mitt Romney.”

Perry, who made stops in the last two days in Concord, Nashua, Bedford, Portsmouth and Dover, said he understands skepticism of New Hampshire voters.

“I’m learning a lot about this place,” he said. “Somebody last night said, ‘Yep, before we make up our minds, you’ve got to meet all of us at least three times.”

Perry continues to note that 40 percent of the nation’s new jobs were in Texas during his tenure, while accusing President Obama of creating 43 new regulations that cost businesses $26 billion. At one point he called Obama “the excuse in chief” when it related to job growth.

John Ela, president of Epoch Homes, said having a candidate like Perry, who “focuses on the concept of the American dream is very important to us.”

“As governor, he cut taxes and in one of the first times since World War II he was able to cut spending in his state,” Ela said. “That’s certainly something you’ve seen a lot about in the news lately: the need to cut government spending.”

O’Brien says that’s something he likes about Perry.

“We’re beginning, in New Hampshire, to travel the route Texas has so successfully pursued, which is lower regulations and living within our means,” O’Brien said. “I think we have a very strong field of Republican candidates. I think people in New Hampshire realize that almost any one of them will be vastly a superior President (compared to Obama.)”