Bush was a sitting president that won only 37.4% of the popular vote in esentially a 3 way race.
That’s not Perot’s fault. Bush was clearly rejected by the voters. Bush wasn’t winning in 1992 on his record.
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.