Oh, believe me I know.. well, I think I know. You realize it turned out Perot was a good friend of Bill Clinton's and who is a better triangulator than Bill Clinton.
Yes, it was brilliant of Clinton, but Perot couldn't have pulled enough votes from Bush if Bush had thrown a couple bones to the conservatives.
41 became arrogant and detached from American's day-to-day lives, so you are correct he didn't need much help in a lot of "us" jumping ship to vote for Perot... something I deeply regret because it elected Clinton in the end and hope everyone will stop and think long and hard about in '08 before they try to make a protest vote.