Posted on 07/09/2019 11:26:46 AM PDT by rintintin
At the second presidential debate in 1992, Ross Perot said the North American Free Trade Agreement would hurt American workers if it wasn’t a “two-way street.”
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I remember Rush ridiculing Perot.
But Perot’s predictions were right, as Trump essentially says.
Perot should have participated in the Republican primary. Perhaps he would have been president.
I didn’t like Perot, because I saw that he would split the GOP vote, and I always thought the Clintons put him up to running for that reason.
On the other hand, I have come to realize that the Bushes and the Clintons were joined at the hip, involved in a lot of the same skullduggery. So maybe Perot was the more honest alternative, had enough of us seen it. It took a lot of water under the bridge before I began to see it.
At that time, I was much more a “free-marketer” and so I accepted that NAFTA was a good thing. In fact, being as I was pretty young at the time, I thought opening the border to Mexico and Canada would be a good thing all around. Again, it took a couple decades of water under the bridge for me to begin to see the damage.
Perot was telling us a lot of what Trump was telling us. The difference was, three decades later, I was ready to hear it. Had we listened to Perot we might have saved ourselves some pain.
Perot tried to execute the Trump campaign plan, but he didn’t have the support of the patriots and too many conservatives still thought the GOP was the GOP of Reagan.
The only giant sucking sound came from Monica.
“The difference was, three decades later, I was ready to hear it. Had we listened to Perot we might have saved ourselves some pain.”
Three decades later it’s easier to see the results. A lot more data.
Yes, truly.
In Trump’s book, The America We Deserve, he clearly was supportive of a lot of Perot’s policies.
Far from being “literally Hitler”, Trump could be compared to Ross Perot and Huey P. Long.
But the drive by media and the Commiecrats don’t know who either of those 2 people were.
See my post #8.
Im with you on with every word you wrote, including my youthful disdain for Perot (and support of NAFTA — and my change of mind over the years as Perot warnings have been vindicated. I’m afraid it’s too late to bring home the jobs and industries we lost by following the Clinton-Bush path of offshoring. Trump is trying in targeted ways, but the forces of globalism are arrayed against him, and when he’s gone I don’t see any political leaders who will carry on the fight. The GOP remains in the pockets of the big donors; they’re just waiting out Trump so they can revert to the status quo. And they’re pretty successful in obstructing him in the meantime
Perot was a prophet without honor, on the trade issue. I was one of those who sneered at him
At that time a child could see that this was a mistake.
That’s why I voted for Perot.
I remember being a bit optimistic that Bill Clinton won, because he campaigned against NAFTA. But ht got passed just as fast as it would have with Bush. I couldn’t believe it! And the Clinton supporters didn’t care.
“At that time a child could see that this was a mistake.”
I was in my late 30’s-early 40’s around the time and Pat Buchanan and Perot convinced me. I supported Buchanan and came real close to voting for Perot. It seemed like they were stating the obvious but both fell short in their efforts to become president.
I listen to Rush, but never take him with a shaker of salt. He is a Deep state supporter by reflex. If William F Buckley Jr were alive, he would be a Never Trumper, and so would Rush. The truth lies within the JBS. They have been dead on, bullseye with their ideas since they were founded. Rush at one time followed them, until WFB jr tuned him up. JBS has been warning about the Communist takeover of America, and the Deep State for decades. If Limbaugh would just look around at the nation, he would realize which side was more correct. The Bushiters or Perot/Trump.
I voted for him because of that, and I'm proud that I did.
>>But Perot’s predictions were right, as Trump essentially says.<<
That huge sucking sound was the sound of $$$$ pouring into the globalist elites bank accounts.
In our lifetime, we’ve witnessed the greatest transfer of wealth in world history from the American middle class to the communist Chinese government.
Perot was spot on.
Thank you!!
I was incensed in the mid 1990s when Limbaugh slandered anyone who opposed NAFTA as a leftist.
I have never entirely trusted him since then.
Agree emphatically. Buckley and Limbaugh were/are Establishment. They were/are part of their own version of the elite.
WFB ostracized JBS, so much so that the Neocon NeverTrumpers cited that example as proof the Trump voters must likewise be ostracized.
JBS was right. Joe McCarthy was right.
I have never entirely trusted him since then.”
Me too. But I kept listening till a few years into the Bush Administration. I voted for him in 2000 but within three years I came to realize Bush was a disastrous president (alas, long before most Freepers would admit it). Rush kept applauding everything W did. I turned Rush off and have never turned him back on
Yes, I agree. If Limbaugh did not have a personal relationship with Trump, he would be a never Trumper.
I remember when Rush said just before Clinton was elected, “if the Republicans have control of the House/Senate/Executive branch at the same time, and they still do not cut into the size and scope of spending and government bureaus, he would support a third party or a Perot type of candidate. That happened with GW, and the government grew. Spending grew, Republicans are liars just as Democrats are. Even Trump is a profligate spender.
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