Well, this old lady worked very hard for Pat Buchanan. But I have worked very hard for many presidential campaigns beginning with Eisenhower’s. Sometimes things get a little confused, so if i remember incorrectly, please forgive me. But someone backed Perot and Perot was a spoiler, like Freddie Dalton Thompson was a spoiler in 2007 until he dropped out three days after Duncan Hunter threw in the towel.
“But someone backed Perot and Perot was a spoiler”
Perot was definitely a spoiler for Bush 41 in 1992, but I can’t think of any prominent conservatives that backed him. I think there may have been some that were flirting with the idea, till Perot dropped out in July 1992 citing paranoia over his family’s safety, then got back in the race in Sept or October (can’t remember which). By that time, everyone realized the buy was a kook and stayed far away from him. He still ended pulling about 20% of the popular vote in that election.
In 1996 I don’t think anyone of any note backed Perot. By then, his 15 minutes of fame were long past, but he decided to make another run just to be an irritant. I believe he got something like 10% in that race. I don’t think it was enough to make much of a difference in the outcome.