Posted on 08/23/2023 5:51:16 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
If Perot could have won the general election as a third party candidate, then he could have EASILY won the primary of whichever party he was most in agreement with, and then would have won the general.
ZERO benefit to rinning as a third party, but horrible damage: He split the conservative vote in the general election allowing Bill Clinton to win even though conservatives outnumbered his supporters.
The WINNING strategy, which Trump has already demonstrated, is WIN the primary, win the party, win the election.
Third parties throw easy election victories to the major party they are least affiliated with.
Splitting the votes of conservatives is how conservatives keep getting defeated, both in the primaries and general elections. WISE UP and stop falling for it, and make the people who dont’t understand that is what has been happening realize that is EXACTLY what has been happening, both inside and outside the GOP.
...that is hard to make some people see.
It is FAR easier to fool someone than convince them that they have been fooled.
The ‘sucking sound’ that Perot was hearing in 1992 has turned into a ‘roar’ under Biden.
That seems sort correct-ish.
But in the moment, we have RINOs a plenty aligned with Democrats on many things.
A "useless" Republican Party -- please note the equivalency -- is a useless Republican Party.
A disruption in either party would be welcome, to my view. Trump and RFK Jr rising to actual candidacy would cause many, many heads to explode. And the bureaucratic, deep state to act out, I would think, in ways as yet not seen.
I support a third party candidate!
As long as its a Democrat!
Big deal, the anti-gun, pro-abortion lefty did what he did to America on purpose, to get a democrat into the White House, and his fortune was made from government work.
His folksy ways and accent suckered you guys and you didn’t see the lefty billionaire kingmaker behind it.
Tulsi would really make their heads explode. I’ve been watching her videos from Maui, I must say I am more impressed with her with each passing day.
Of course there’s a lot I disagree with her on, but then again, I disagree on a lot of things with every politician out there (including Trump, whom as of now I still support).
i voted for perot, twice... he didn’t give us clinton, those who voted for the establishment GHWB did... perot supporters saw early that the establishment new world order was a bad thing...
quit projecting your self hate onto perot supporters.
Ross Perot got 19% of the vote ...
A lot of very nice people voted for him...
That’s why the media and left are ghosting RFK Jr.
Wish I did.
Bushes and Clintons, for all intents and purposes, are the same family.
How did people who voted for Bush in 1992 give us Clinton? They didn’t vote for Clinton, they voted for Bush.
Nothing he says in that video was wrong and most of the problems have gotten worse. I think he was a little naive in believing that all the income would go to what he envisioned, but his ideas were sound. You just can’t deny human nature and the intransigence of entrenched bureaucracies.
We as citizens are in a deep deep pit of $h!t
As the silly season nears courtesy on non-stop politicking, when pressed as to my favorite candidate, I respond "disruption."
The local and official party types are consistently confused on both sides. "What! You don't trust us?" Such a response by the few who've been in that little, local political comedy has been amusing.
I worked in Belgium during that period when the politicians couldn't form an actual government, and things went along fine and fine enough. Happened twice, by the way, and Belgium is the most recent champ in this regard. Great and many kinds of pâté, I must say.
It was a lesson in the ways of the world.
Similarly with those few avid Democrats I still know, each time they complain about energy prices and such, I say "you voted for it." They are oddly unwilling to hear that....
It is NOT a year for a third party deal breaker. The dems always stay on the reservation and circle the wagons around their candidate. A third party candidate will only guarantee four more years of Biden. Which, the cheat is already in place, so third party or not, the fix is in place.
“Read my lips-no new taxes” gave us Clinton.
Looking at his watch during the debate gave us Clinton. As if he threw that race intentionally.
Rush Limbaugh was on to him right away.
I hope you are well, stay well and are out of debt. And are not too near an inner city....
We watched the Berlin wall fall and knew many lovely "East" Germans who managed to adapt after a "collapse." In a similar way and without involving myself in any of the malarkey going on in some threads here, The Soviet Union's dissolution -- a "collapse" -- is replaced by a Russia today able, like it or not, to engage in Ukraine as it is. Restructure after a collapse is the normal human behavior.
So, here I watch a collapse in slow motion -- thinking of the famous Hemingway quote -- in San Francisco, wherein REITs are in trouble, businesses collapse or move away, tourism wanes, real estate prices for "distressed" mortgages drop, and all should been seen as a regional collapse. Rather like East Germany. The difference is that East Germany is no more, while the current political class in San Francisco cling on. When collapse is further along, those who caused it will shrink away. If it takes generations, one only need think of the Bolshevik "revolution" which lasted so many decades.
A state can wither, and yet a citizenry survive. It is THE state which is so often the cause of much misery, debt and war.
Of the collapse of the USSR, one feature to that collapse is often ignored. The Soviet dent simply disappeared. There are some conservative economists who argue -- and argu well -- that we can "disappear" the Fed and the national debt. Not without disruption of course, but nonetheless.... Collapse is not to be feared. In the case of San Francisco it is to be observed in real time.
Looking at his watch during the debate gave us Clinton. As if he threw that race intentionally.
That kinda sounds like what McCain and Romney did for us.
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