You 'n me both, Brother FReeper. At the time, I was still on the GOP plantation and voted Republican anyway -- indeed, for the past nearly 40 years I"ve been voting, I have NEVER once voted for a Democrat and ONLY for a handful of libertarians ONLY in very local elections; I have voted straight party ticket faithfully and doggedly. I'm finally accepting the truth that that approach for the past 10 years has been fulfilling Einstein's definition of insanity. If I want to see change, I have to change how I vote.
Frankly, I THANK YOU for being fed up enough, and to have had the courage, to vote for Perot back then, though back then I would have angrily berated you. Your vote and the votes of patriots like you are THE ONLY THINGS that created the important plurality that helped enable the Republican Revolution, which helped America. FRiend, that Republican Revolution wouldn't have happened if HW had been re-elected, nor would it have happened if Clinton had won on a majority.
If HW had won, count on it: the Democrat to have followed him would have been as bad if not worse than Clinton, and Congress would have remained firmly left-bound.