Jim Robinson's Perot analogy for Arnie applies to what Robinson sees as the emerging Schwarzenegger campaign strategy. He may have a somewhat valid point, but the analogy falls apart at the crucial comparison -- the polls. Perot was a never anywhere near as strong a contender for the office he sought as Arnie is for Governor of California.
I frankly I admit I am not a purist in politics. I subscribe to an old and honored strategy of practical politics -- compromise -- because I believe politics is the art of the possible, not the imposition of perfection.
He may have a somewhat valid point, but the analogy falls apart at the crucial comparison -- the polls. Perot was a never anywhere near as strong a contender for the office he sought as Arnie is for Governor of California. Historical revisionism? Actually, he was stronger.
The Gallup poll taken in early June 1992 showed Perot at 39 percent, with George Bush at 32 and Bill Clinton at 24 percent.