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Perot ran a legal operation, I'll admit. It just wasn't honest. That lack of honesty poisoned the well. His goal was not to be president. His goal was to see Clinton become president. That's manipulation pure and simple.

When Ross Perot endorsed Ann Richards for re-election for Texas governor over George W. Bush, all pretense went out the window. Perot is a demosnake and always will be.

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I'm no fan of Perot, but the guy ran a legal campaign with the intention of getting Bush out of office. And he succeeded. That's the way we do things in this country.

Like Nader or Buchanan, I'm sure he really wanted to win, but did not realistically expect to.

I don't believe that we all have to toe the line to the two party system. Perot, Buchanan, Nader, Jon Anderson, Pat Paulson, the Libertarians, the Greens, whatever. As long as they run a legal campaign, I don't really care what their motivations are. They are welcome in the fray.

And as to "preying on the gullible", the gullible are the swing voters that every candidate and party chases with canned slogans and faux-pleasant imagery. I blame the gullible for their own gullibility.