Posted on 07/13/2019 5:57:41 AM PDT by texas_mrs
This week, the nation remembers Ross Perot for his success in business, his two independent White House bids and his no-nonsense, straight Texas talk. His love of country, larger-than-life personality and generosity are all part of his legacy that will live on. But there is another little-known part of the life of Ross Perot that should be told now that he is gone. He was a tireless, but private, supporter of our wounded veterans. During my time as governor of this great state, I had the honor and privilege of knowing countless warriors who stepped forward to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan and returned home with horrific wounds of war. U.S. Army Cpl. Alan Babin Jr. is one such hero. While serving in Iraq in 2003 as a medic in the 82nd Airborne, Alan was shot in the abdomen while tending to a fallen comrade. While Alan survived his injury, he faced a long and difficult road to recovery, complicated by the onset of meningitis and a stroke-induced coma that left him confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. On the one-year anniversary of his wounding, I joined Alan and his family for a small gathering. He was still in very bad shape, neurologically and physically incapacitated. When I asked his mother, Rosie, what I could do to help, she said she was eager to get him out of the hospital and back home, but struggling with the prospect of transporting Alan to his many medical visits.
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We must be our own worst critics and rot made us face our shortcomings.
Too bad Perot lost in 92. He’d have made a great president.
When you come to rationalize and understand the whole Bush theatrical ‘show’, you can view Perot in a slightly different light. But it took me twenty years to reach that point.
Poppie wouldn't have been any better, and Billy Jeff woulda came along next cycle to smear Awful Dull anyway!
The lesson is
Don't vote for luciferian globalist puppets!
Iirc Perot made most of his fortune through government contracts for computer support to agencies like Social Security.
The GOP, along with the media, helped to tarnish Perot’s reputation when he was alive. I’m proud to have voted for him twice, helping in my small way to damage the House of Bush.
I still blame Perot for Clinton but will admit this, I worked for a Colonel who came down with leukemia and Perot paid for all his treatment. He didn’t have to do that.
He made all of his fortune by creating a computer system that could bill Medicare. Every penny.
If Clinton had lost in 1992, he would have become a footnote, just like Mondale and Dukakis.
Maybe it would have been better for Perot to have held off in 1992 and let Bush win... And then go for the Republican nomination in 1996.
bump
"When two of his employees were held hostage in a heavily guarded prison fortress in Iran, one man took matters into his own hands: businessman H. Ross Perot. His team consisted of a group of volunteers from the executive ranks of his corporation, handpicked and trained by a retired Green Beret officer. To free the imprisoned Americans, they would face incalculable odds on a mission that only true heroes would have dared. . . ."
He deliberately forced Clinton on us... twice.
And got lots of government contracts for his help.
Unforgivable.
If you had to make the choice today, would you vote for Perot or Bush?
Perot would have won in 1992 if he hadn't dropped out and then gotten back in later. There were a few "under the radar" stories that his family was threatened. At the time, it sounded kind of goofy, cause most of us didn't believe the "deep state" stuff. When he got back in, it was obvious he wasn't in it to win it, but only to make sure Bush lost. Perot didn't have the infrastructure around him, like Trump does, to stop the mob style hits. He would have been assassinated.
The Bushes and Romneys have done more damage to the Republican party than the Democrats ever could. The east coast globalist branch of the Republican party only has two presidents (Bush I and II) and both got elected by pretending to be something else. Every other deep state implant has been beaten.
I met him once, at the Special Operations Convention. He was a short man, but friendly to a total stranger like me. I chatted for a while with his aid, who was a LTC in the Reserves or Guard.
I have held a grudge about the three-way election, but looking back on it, I guess I can see what he was saying. He tried to do what Donald Trump succeeded in doing, interrupting the Deep State and Establishment. We were all naive, back then. Now, our eyes are opened and we are seeing the Bushes and the Clintons and their ilk as two sides of the same coin.
I know that Ross Perot loved American, the American Fighting Men and Women, and Special Ops in particular. Rest in Peace, Sir. You are a better man than I will ever be.
Perot got scared where Trump did not.
He wasn’t in it to win. Last thing he wanted was to win.
Business comes first.
I admire Ross Perot greatly. A real prince of a guy who would have been a Trump-like president. But his third party entry into the presidential race took enough away enough Republican votes to give us Bill Clinton - twice. In my eyes that cast a shadow. Why did he do it? He knew the consequences.
Ross confronted d deep state as best he could. Trump learned from this.
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