But then Perot got really weird - he dropped out of the race, declaring that he had saved the Democrat Party from destruction...only to reenter a few weeks later. What a nut case!
I voted for Bush in 1992. 20% of America voted for Perot. My belief is that these 20% believed that Perot was more conservative that Bush, and pro-American.
If Perot had never run for President, most of that 20% would have voted for Bush as the lesser of two evils. Despite Bush being a GOPe, we would not be in the mess we are today if he had won.
If Ronald Reagan had not thrown a VP life vest to Bush in ‘80, the Bush buffoons would have deservedly disappeared from public life and we would all have been better off.
Bush 1, who tarnished Reagan’s legacy, was little more than an usher for Clinton while his son’s gross incompetence, ushered in Obama.
If you need a scapegoat, the Bushes own it!!!
“20% of America voted for Perot. My belief is that these 20% believed that Perot was more conservative that Bush,”
your belief does not stand up to the empirical data. Even if more Perot voters had voted Bush than Clinton, a ratio of 2:1 woulda been needed, A MINIMUM, assuming all Perot voters would’ve voted.
When ur job approval is under 40%, like Carter, far lower than 0Bama and Carter in 2012 and 1980, respectively, YOU LOSE.
Blackmail, then he found out the pictures were fake was the story I heard at the time.
Well stated. Perot took votes from the conservative, pro-American side; he wouldn’t have if Bush had been a better candidate. Perot never believed he was going to win; he ran out of vanity and hatred for Bush. Absent Perot, Clinton would never have been elected.
“But then Perot got really weird - he dropped out of the race, declaring that he had saved the Democrat Party from destruction...only to reenter a few weeks later. What a nut case!”
Recall John McCain did the same thing in 2008 during the financial crisis. He suspended his campaign to go to Washington as though he was a real power broker. Instead he only helped the media demonstrated he was a complete fool while Obama looked presidential. It didn’t help that President George W. Bush went AWOL, turning the management of the financial crisis over to his Secretary of the Treasury, former Goldman Sachs CEO Henry Paulson, as well as Ben Bernanke and Timothy Geithner. The Wall Street threesome promptly bailed out the big banks and stuck the taxpayer with the bill and a deep recession. I will never forget the financial crisis was triggered by a run on money market funds, likely from abroad.
The Bush administration covered for the foreign governments or speculators who precipitated the direct attack on the US financial system in 2008. It was clear then the Bush family loyalties are to social class (the upper 1%) and globalism, not to the United States of America.