The more I think of it 1992, and the Perot Run.
He was a charlatan live hand grenade with a bad haircut who would have made un-kubocko bucks with EDS and or Perot Systems managing Hillary Care, and he was a spoiler to help make that happen.
Hillary Care didn't and he got shafted.
But how many Indy's, Republicans, and Conservatives pulled the lever for him because they were so pissed @ Papa Bush for screwing with the Reagan Legacy.
The problem was everyone was looking for a leader and a new movement, the Tea Party back then didn't realize the power was in their hands, not surrendering it to someone else, and it took another 20ish years to figure it out !!!!
Good explanation of 1992 in your post #43.
I am guilty as charged. Papa Bush did not understand the times, was not concerned about the exploding debt, would not take on Bill Clinton( we didn’t know about Mena(AK) Airport then, did we?)and Perot seemed like he could be a credible candidate.
Perot got 19% of the vote, Clinton became President, and Bush looked like “Wha happened?”
But I’ll tell you what, the GOP was shocked outta their shorts by all this, We got Newt Gingrich and a Contract for America, and in ‘94, the House became Republican for the first time in 40 years! So I am proud of helping to make that happen.
Of course the GOP put up Dole in ‘96 and screwed the country once again. Similar to Sarah Palin helping to win back the House in 2010 with the Tea Party while the GOP-E sat on their @sses, and then two years later, put up Mitt Romney, guaranteeing an Obama second term.
I really don’t care what happens to the GOP.
they either get on board with the Tea Party or become the Whigs of the 21st Century. Their call.