Where is Ross Perot?

When Ross Perot was drafted by a grassroots movement into the 1992 presidential campaign, he had two complaints as I recall:

• The lobbyists have too much influence
• The national debt will cripple our economic future

What a difference twelve years make, huh?

• Lobbyists have more than influence now,
they write the laws they want -- and in
secret, too.
• Budget deficits are much larger now, and
will probably grow to super-gigantic
proportions in the next few years.

So, where's the outrage? Did Perot's supporters all die? Or are they distracted by something else, like say -- oh, I don't know -- maybe SATAN?

;) oh no, that was another crusty old Texas billionaire. :D

:eyes:

:shrug:

I did hear a few months back though that he will be publishing a book sometime this year. Can't wait to see what he has to say now. However, I must admit I was devastated when he went on Larry King and endorsed Bush the night before the election. WTF???

I am 100% behind Kucinich, but see the same thing happening again as in 2002. Edwards and Braun come in second and third. Marginalized, "unelectable", media blackout. Anyone speaking the truth and talking about true reform are being shut out. IMHO, Dean is scary and will result in alot of dissapointment for us all. The largest issue by far in the coming election (if it happens), are the Electronic Voting Machines, no paper trail, BlackBox Voting! If we do not demand a verifiable paper trail to audit we are screwed, period.

That's all I can hink of.

With the giant sucking sound audible to everyone now, you'd think he'd be out trumpeting that he was right and Gore was wrong, especially since Gore made him look like such a fool on national TV.

When Perot endorsed B*s* in 2000, I was pretty sure that the Repukes had done something to buy him off, maybe promised him certain policy changes or perks or something in exchange for him shutting up and coming back into the Repuke fold. The Reform Party posed a genuine spoiler threat to the Repukes, even more so than the Greens are for us. Buying off Perot and shutting down the Reform Party was a high priority for the Repuke establishment. Notice how once Perot withdrew his support, the Reform Party collapsed. It was a party built around the personality of Perot, and without him to hold things together, the Buchananites, Newmanites, Venturaites, and other Reform factions fought it out briefly, then took their marbles and went home.

Perot's big issues were campaign finance reform, lobbyist reform, term limits, and opposition to NAFTA and GATT. As I recall he also had some kind of personal feud going with Bush Sr. over the POW-MIA issue and Perot was one of the people along with the Christic Institute who first came out with accusations that Bush administration officials had been involved in the southeast Asia heroin trade.

The Bushies did *something* to buy him off and make the Reform Party a non-entity. Whatever that something was, it had to be major for Perot to go so far as to endorse a Bush in 2000.

but I don't recall the details. Perhaps he's laying low because of this.

That Ross Perot?