Posted on 12/03/2018 8:35:07 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Agree completely ( my 1/2 cent to make it $.02)
Bush was the pro at clutching defeat from the jaws of victory. The GOP followed suit ever since.
Bush's run in 80' was exactly that: To stop Ronald Reagan.
The character assassination of Bush and Quayle in 92 was the beginning of the essential culture war we are now experiencing.
That has been going on at least since Roosevelt challenged Hoover in 32'.
Clinton won with fewer votes in 1992 than Dukakis lost with in 1988.
And Ross Perot has been in hiding ever since, the little &%^#!!
Bush didn’t keep his no taxes pledge and independent conservatives went Perot. Still in the latter part of ‘92 when Bush started getting a second wind in the Polls, the MSM contrived a short lived “recession” which was only a couple quarters downturn and Perot, who had backed out of the race jumped back in to keep Bush from winning. Perot still had enough support in 1996 to block Bob Dole from winning as well.
Blaming third party “spoilers” is a convenient way to distract attention from the (obvious) fact that if you didn’t have such a pi$$-poor major party candidates, people wouldn’t even consider third party votes as an alternative. If Bush were such a great man and President as the article claims, nobody who voted for him in 88 would have voted for Perot in 92.
Without Perot in the election, Bush would have easily won re-election.
Same thing happened in 1996 to Dole. Had Perot not run, Slick and Dole would have been essentially tied in the popular vote.
Could some Conservative IDIOT come in & STOP TRUMP??!!!!
Not knowing your history is a convenient way to ignore the facts that don’t correlate with your preconceived theory.
Slick Willie won the election with 43% of the popular vote.
All those who now enjoy shitting all over GHWB can ponder the fact that your idol, Ronald Reagan, thought the world of him.
George Bush
Popular Votes: 39,103,882 (37.4%)
Ross Perot
Popular Votes: 19,741,657 (18.9%)
Consider the total popular vote:
1984 92.6 million
1988 91.6 million
1992 104.4 million
1996 94.3 million
The popular vote jumped by more than 12 million in 1992, and dropped by about 10 million in 1996.
How do you explain that?
The excitement of the Perot circus brought millions of non-voters out of the woodwork, voters who wouldn't have voted at all if the race had just been Bush vs. Clinton. It makes no sense to assume that the majority of Perot voters would have voted for Bush.
Even thought he was, and still is, an absolute scumbag, Slick Willy Clinton is one of the most skilled politicians we have ever seen, and Bush didn't even come close in that regard.
American women fell for the used car salesman and pervert from Little Rock.
I had a home care patient once in 1993 who had been a prison warden who asked me...”You seem to be a sharp fellow...didn’t it seem to you that Bush took a dive on this election?” I told him that it had been a suspicion of mine early in his race but then when he seemed to catch fire in the latter part of the year, Perot had done his restart bit and the MSM was doing fake news about a nonexistent recession, and that’s what finally sunk him! The warden nodded...”Yeah, It’s what I thought, too!” I pointed out though that Clinton only squeaked in with 43% of the popular vote.(He only got 49 per cent in ‘96 and a total of 96 million people voting for all candidates that year vs 104 million in 1992) so it’s not like the country really liked Clinton.
If it makes you feel a little better about 2016, while Trump got 46.1% per cent of the popular vote, other 3rd candidates took 5.7 per cent meaning that 51.8 percent of the popular vote went against H. Clinton(48.2). Clinton won a plurality of popular votes but she did not win a majority of votes(anything over 50 percent). It steams up DemLibs when I mention that!
Bush was part of the GOP that just doesn’t understand reality of Democrats. Unless you help “gather the valuables in the camp” for the Democrats they will, without hesitation, force you into a “shower”.
They not only want power, they don’t want any competition. They want Conservatives and Republican eliminated and eradicated.
I think of Bj not so much as a politician as much as a dictator who has no love for this country He was pretty good at manufactring votes.
I don’t blame Perot so much
That was bad. But, what really cooked his goose was he called the new tax increase a 'revenue enhancement'.
I quit when Kevin Williamson wrote that disgusting article saying White Working Class people needed to die off.
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