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.
The only giant sucking sound came from Monica.
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.
I voted for him because of that, and I'm proud that I did.