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.
Where’s your evidence that all or most of the 18% who voted for Perot would have otherwise voted for Bush if Perot weren’t in the race, as opposed to not voting at all or even voting for Clinton? Oh, that’s right, you have none, so you just repeat the RNC party line rather than facing the fact that if Bush were a halfway decent President and candidate, third party candidates wouldn’t matter (in most other races, third party candidates of any kind are lucky to get more than 1%).