[SamAdams76]

I too was underwhelmed with Dole/Kemp in 1996.

This was around the time that Free Republic was getting off the ground. Before that, many of us old-timers were on the Prodigy/Whitewater BB. Including Jim Robinson.

Just over a year later, the Monica Lewinsky story broke. Then a lot of Freepers (including myself) met in DC late October 1998.

From that point on, I regretted my Perot vote and not voting for Dole.

Yes, Trump was definitely Perot 2.0. Trump had a much thicker skin then Perot and I feel his presidential chapter is not fully written yet. Not by a long shot.

[bankwalker]

Perot's role was NOT to win. He would've won in 1992 but as his popularity soared he dropped out of the race with a kook story. Once he damaged himself enough he returned to the race to play out his role.

Trump is the best we've had in a very long time. He should never be compared to the little conman with the big ears that was on Clinton's team from the git go.

[j.havenfarm]

He wasn’t the guy to get the job done. I remember the Kemp/gore debate. Gore started some point to the effect that, unlike all the other Republicans, kemp was a good and honorable man. In true defeatist chronic loser fashion, instead of vigorously defending the impugning of the GOP,
Kemp began his answer with “I thank my friend for his kind remarks…”

[Theoria]

Perot was a gun grabber, but right on the major issues. Issues on trade and government spending. Those issues will never be fixed, because the people ‘we’ elect have chosen not to fix those problems and continue running up the debt. The sooner America realizes this, the better off we will be. It’s all downhill.