Posted on 12/03/2018 11:08:16 AM PST by JonPreston
Given the fullness of time, who would you vote for today?
A friend voted for Clinton because he was from Arkansas and therefore a more conservative democrat.
He ate up all that 'New Wave Democrat' spiel and believed him when he promised a middle class tax cut...
Ross is NOT my Boss.
CNN was where Perot was hatched.
These is where the LEFT discovered they could manipulate elections based entirely on News Coverage.
Same person I voted for, and campaigned for, then - Ross Perot.
He was spectacularly right about NAFTA while the whole political establishment was lying to us.
Amazing that it’s taken a quarter century for him to be vindicated.
Pat Paulsen was still running at the time. :-)
-PJ
I think that the emphasis there is wrong. You see, what really condemns us to these Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Idiotic races is the 17th Amendment.
Before that Amendment minor and regional parties could hope for national significance because they could be locally successful. This meant that at the State level those weren’t wasted votes which allowed these to flourish to the point that they could be big enough to step in should either of the two big partys crumble or badly stumble. This did happen with the Republicans when the Whigs crumbled.
The 17th put an end to that. With the 17th all the independent movements like the Grange withered. This let the partys press their character down on everyone from the top down and was a windfall in power to big city elites.
I’ll have the lasagna.
This sums it up very well for me.
I once made a truly tasteless joke about Perot having sex based on that very observation.
Good point.
I voted Perot as I believed it would be good to see a non-politician give it a try. I still believe that (we have one now!). I’d vote Perot again.
That said, I was in California at the time, so my vote didn’t really count.
Perot was ahead of the curve concerning NAFTA and international trade by at least a decade.
The problem with Perot was Perot. He turned himself into a cartoon caricature on Larry King’s show with the whole chartboard schtick and he had an unfortunate Texas twang nasal quality to his voice.
Tip of the hat to you!
IIRC, didn’t Perot drop out of the race right before the Democrat convention? I always thought the timing was suspicious since that convention gave Clinton first crack at getting Perot’s followers on board. And when he got back in, he was able to dilute GHWB’s support.
The problem with Perot is that the American people then, and still to a great extent now, prefer smooth-talking, media-approved crooks over an honest but unpolished man.
This is a massive flaw in the modern American character.
My Perot remark was directed to him personally, not you personally.
My apologies for not being clear enough about it.
Good point.
...and so it goes.
If the problems of those times were fixed we wouldn't be in the mess we are in. We still have the same problems; trade and the debt, budget.
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