Fear of their reputation being smeared is the one thing that holds back everyone running EXCEPT Trump. And what angers me is the left is going to smear anyone who runs no matter what they say so they may as well speak the truth.
But they are cowards. And maybe for good reason. More people believe the left media and there is no right media. Ross Perot is not the dummy the press made him out to be. Here was a man who, at the time, was one of the richest people on earth. And the press made him out to be some kind of paranoid loony bird who went around drooling all over himself. And there will probably be responses to this post saying he WAS a loony bird because they believed CNN.
I always thought the threats to disrupt some family event were real, just because they were outrageous enough to be denied and portrayed as paranoia. What better way to take Mr. Perot down? It was a lesson in media perception games, and they've been roundly attacking Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman and others and trying the same Alinsky tactics on them that were used on Ross.
Now, if people would just pay attention and apply their lessons for a change, maybe this whole mess can be straigntened out with a minimum of blood in the streets.