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He accomplished exactly what the wanted, the election of Bill Clinton.

Perot gave us Clinton, no doubt about it. I think his real goal was to stop Bush from winning so even if he didn't himself and Clinton won his mission was accomplished.

The rumor was that he had a grudge against Bush but I think that was just cover for the more selfish reason.

Before he even got involved he wrote a long article for the Dallas Morning News criticizing the first gulf war as unnecessary. Surely he didn't think allowing Saddam to have Kuwait was wise or that Saddam wouldn't next move to take over Saudi and eventually all the ME oil. It was just criticism of Bush to help Clinton. Apparently, they deemed that not to be enough. Perot started doing so well they feared he would hurt Clinton more than Bush so he pulled his "withdrawal" stunt to slow the momentum.

You notice that Perot spent very little of his own money on his campaign, allowing instead for the "volunteers" to carry the load. Nor did he use the campaign material prepared for him by a political consultant. The political consultant, whose name doesn't come to mind at the moment, had to go public in order to get his money from Perot.

The whole thing was a sham and he has been laying low since.