To: Reaganwuzthebest
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.
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01/25/2006 5:42:35 AM PST by
Mind-numbed Robot
(Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government.)
To: Mind-numbed Robot
The rumor was that he had a grudge against Bush but I think that was just cover for the more selfish reason. The support he got, including mine was mostly from his opposition to NAFTA. A lot of us knew what the treaty would do and he was right. If he had stuck to the message and ignored the opposition he would have rode that pony into the WH. But then again maybe it was what you said, he really didn't want it.
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