Looks like a landslide to me.
Posted on 03/18/2019 2:16:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Looks like a landslide to me.
If Bush had not said “Read my lips” and then raise taxes, there would have been no Ross Perot. Ross Perot ran for the specific reason that we did not like Bush I.
He only won the first time because he was on Reagan’s coattails. Interesting that Reagan is the only president to have coattails since the 1920s.
“Lots of people blame the “Read my Lips...” comment. They are wrong. The blame goes to Ross Perot.”
I respectfully disagree :-). HW Bush ran a horrible campaign in 1992. It was almost as if he mailed it in early and let Clinton win. He seemed to have had NO desire to serve a second term.
Perot not running *might* have given Bush a second term, but I stress *might* :-) ... I believe Bush did everything he wanted to set up his new world order in 4 years and had a Democratic candidate that was willing to do more dirty work that most Republicans (at the time) would have not supported.
Clinton came into office with a D house and senate ... his biggest blunder (from a globalist perspective) was letting his idiot wife try and shove Hillarycare down our throats. Outside of that, Clinton accomplished a lot (to our detriment).
Very true.
Even before the election - before there was even an internet - it was widely known that Clinton was a rapist and a con artist (White Water, Rose Law Firm, Troopergate, etc. etc.)
But did the media bring this up? Did they report it?
Hah!
Funny how that worked out.
Caliph Baraq did the same thing with Obamacare.
The Dems spent their 2 years fumbling on that when they could have jammed through stuff like card check unionization and cap & tax energy policy.
Perot served a very useful (idiot) purpose.
He drove home the point that voting for a third party is good for liberalism.
Every year we have the same old trolls who say they will stay home. Or they will vote for a 3rd party. or some such baloney.
But in the end we hold our noses and vote for the least evil. (McCain, Romney, whatever.)
Conservatives who voted for Perot went full retard in 92. Thanks guys. We shore do love our Clinton Dynasty you gave us.
You are wrong. It was bush's fault. He made a promise and broke it.
It wasn't that he said "No new taxes, read my lips", it's that we believed him and he lied to us.
F all the bushes.
I'm glad the lying son of a bitch went down in flames.
The only difference between bush 1 and clintoon was a rape and a couple of hundred blow jobs.
Those two were brothers from another mother, UN loving, globalist pricks.
It was bush 1 that started the nafta deal in 1992, remember Ross Perot kept saying, "That giant sucking sound you hear, is the sound of American jobs going down the drain to Mexico". Perot was against nafta and it wasn't ratified until 1994 under clintooooon.
Also, Clinton let the Democrats run wild with gun control initiatives the first two years.
You are correct on all points.
The myth that “Perot gave us Clinton” is based on the belief that the vast majority of Perot votes would have gone to Bush.
In fact, millions of Perot voters wouldn’t have voted at all if it was just Bush and Clinton in the race, who were just opposite sides of the same counterfeit coin.
The popular vote in 1992 was about 12 million higher than in 1988, and the popular vote in 1996 was about 8 million less than in 1992. The Perot candidacy was responsible for much of that spike in voting in 1992.
Exit polling in 1992 indicated that Perot drew votes from both major candidates more or less equally.
In some ways, Perot was the prototype for Trump.
Your absolutely correct. This last election might have gone the same way for me. If it would have been Jeb bush against Hillary Clinton, I had already decided I wouldn’t vote for either one. Thank God Trump ran and won the nomination. A nomination I believe the RNC didn’t want him to have.
And Kay-sick? What a joke. The man can't win the Presidency against Trump.
Exactly right. People forget that Ruby Ridge happened on Bush’s watch, and Bush signed an import ban on rifles. The Bushes are elites who sought to limit freedom for the masses.
But in the end we hold our noses and vote for the least evil. (McCain, Romney, whatever.)
Not quite so. Large numbers of Ted Cruz conservatives do not come out and vote for the McCains and Romneys. But moderate center right people who would not vote for Ted Cruz will come out for a Republian moderate.
Separately, there are millions of Evangelicals who came out for the first, and only time, in 1994. They were disillusioned by the 1995 Senate and have never come out since. Of course half of them have now died of old age.
The result is that conservatives down ballot are hurt.
It is the rare Ronald Reagan who can attract both.... or an effective ground game where the voters do not vote for the candidate or party, they vote for their local precinct worker.
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