... of Clinton elected on a 43% plurality with 57% of the popular vote rejecting him, where his lack of popular mandate was so concrete that he got his ass creamed in the mid-terms with the Republican Revolution, a revolution that would likely never have happened if he'd been elected with a majority or if HWB had been re-elected?
Is that the horrible impact you're talking about?
Incidentally, I was as angry with Perot voters at the time as you are now. In 36 years of voting in every election, I have NEVER declined a Repblican on any ballot, ever, even including Schwarzenegger; 2012 will be the first time if it's O v R. Some of us move on and learn from our mistakes. How about you?
I made no mistake and realize that the damage Clinton’s election did was enormous particularly wrt to our foreign policy and military. Having a Republican Congress while he was in office limited to some extent the danger but did not end it in the slightest.
Had Bush been president who is to say that the Republicans would not have done even better in 94, 96 and 98?
What is done is done so I am not angry with Perot voters just the constantly floated idea of a fourth or fifth party without the prior destruction of the Democrat Party. Forget third parties we are way beyond that.