Whatever excuse you want to use, diluting the conservative vote got Bill Clinton elected.
Now, go back and feel good about the choice you made, but don't try to shrug off the fact that the Reform Party got Clinton elected.
Can we blame Dana Carvey too? Bush Sr lost because of Bush Sr's own actions or lack of such just as Jimmy Carter and Geral Ford did. Taxes and a war he chose to fight but not to actually win an absolute final victory in handed him his own defeat. If the people had been happy with Bush Sr's preformance then Perot would have gotten Zilch votes. Unfortunately Clinton ran to the right of Bush and won. The Bushes are Ford/Rockerfeller Republicans a huge turn off to many including myself.
The Reform Party had nothing to do with it.
Bill Clinton owes his win to Geroge Bush Sr.
Bush's well-publicized "Read my lips" lie cost him the trust of the people.
Clinton won because Bush lied.