How many ways can I say it, that 41 was the author of his own political demise? There'd have been no Ross Perot candidacy without Poppy's air of arrogant detachment and ennui with the details of below-the-salt living in America.
Old 41 acted like we weren't good enough for him. That's why Ross ran -- he was a boot-strapper, a very hard worker, and he couldn't stand the idea of the idle rich running everything like the French Second Estate, with a wave of a lace handkerchief and "let them eat cake". Ross did the right thing at the wrong time. Nobody had any idea how smart and how bad Slick was.
But had 41 been more of a worker-bee, like Bob Dole and Dick Nixon, you'd never have heard a peep out of Ross Perot. Bottom line, folks.
I could have told you from the get go that clinton was nothing but a slick willie. The stupid answer about the boxer shorts, the gennifer flowers denials till he got caught, the draft dodging lie, till he got caught, should have been red flags.
As for the first president Bush, I think he cared, but the media has a way of influencing perception and that's what they managed to do with the first president Bush.