1. Great story. Loved the blurb about Gary Sinise
2. I loved Ross Perot. Voted for him twice. Even so, I’m still confused with him weirding out during his first run.
3. If it weren’t for the weirding out I’m pretty darn sure Ross Perot was going to win.
4. Has anybody ever gotten to the bottom of this incident? Did Ross scuttle his own campaign? What spooked the Billionaire who could have easily hired a mercenary army for protection?
you got us Bubba Clinton
First was Perot, then Palin, and now Trump.
What spooked his campaign? High poll numbers that showed he was surging in popularity past Bush and Clinton.
Perot was a Texas Democrat who ran as an independent. He ran to help get Clinton elected. Call it an 'insurance policy.' The odds were very good that Clinton was going to win, but the Democraps wanted to make sure, so ran Perot as a spoiler to make sure. But, the unexpected happened. Perot proved to be more popular than either of his fellow candidates.
So, Perot concocted a yarn about someone in the Bush campaign was planning to spoil his daughter's impending wedding. He said he had to drop out of the race to keep it from happening. This was a plausible story because GHWB was a known dirty-trickster. Perot later came back in, but by then he was tainted goods. He was still more popular than Bush, but his popularity now below that of Clinton.
In the end, exit polls showed that Perot had likely stolen an equal number of votes from both candidates, but the Republicans never forgave him and blamed him for GWHB's loss.
What they conveniently overlook was that going into the campaign, GHWB's numbers were fantastic. He had just 'won' the Gulf War against Saddam Hussein, the economy was fairly good and the mood of the country was optimistic. Once GHWB started campaigning, his numbers started dropping and continued their downward slide right up to the election. Not to mention that he was terrible in the debates.