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1 posted on 07/09/2019 11:26:46 AM PDT by rintintin
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I remember Rush ridiculing Perot.

But Perot’s predictions were right, as Trump essentially says.


2 posted on 07/09/2019 11:27:47 AM PDT by rintintin (q)
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Perot should have participated in the Republican primary. Perhaps he would have been president.


3 posted on 07/09/2019 11:29:11 AM PDT by FreeReign
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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.


4 posted on 07/09/2019 11:40:59 AM PDT by marron
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The only giant sucking sound came from Monica.


6 posted on 07/09/2019 11:49:32 AM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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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.


12 posted on 07/09/2019 12:51:51 PM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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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.”

I voted for him because of that, and I'm proud that I did.

15 posted on 07/09/2019 1:49:29 PM PDT by Jim Noble (1)
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