Did You Vote for Perot?

Axis Kast · Post by **Axis Kast** » 2003-07-27 09:40pm

Did you vote for Perot during his bid of 1992? If so, why? On what kind of policies did he stand? If one can imagine that he might run again in 2004 - which is really just a fantasy, I know -, does anybody believe he might put up an even better showing (by comparison with former Third Party candidates) by comparison (assuming, of course, he distances himself strongly from Buchanan and the "new" Reform/Conservative Party elements).

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-07-27 11:55pm

Probably a little worse. Angry union members, those who don't understand economics and those who don't understand economics at all would still vote for him, but I suspect the majority of his potential voting bloc would lean Republican, due to national security issues.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-07-28 03:36am

I had considered voting for him until he quit"because of his daughter's wedding". I think he might have had a good shot at winning if he hadn't done that.

Although, from some of the stuff I've heard since then it's probably good that he didn't win since some of the stuff that has come out about the behind the scenes of his presidential run make him appear more than a little nuty and very paranoid.

I also think that Perot's presidential run tended to hurt Bush more than it did Clinton.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-07-28 04:51am

What was Ross Perot's stance anyway??

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-07-28 05:35am

Simon H.Johansen wrote:What was Ross Perot's stance anyway??

I think his main selling point was his success in business. He was supposed to "fix" whatever problems the US government had by running it more like a business.

It also helped that he was not running as a member of one of the two main parties. This meant he was something different than the status quo and he wouldn't be beholden to one particular party since he'd started his own party (The Reform Pary, of which only Jesse Ventura has won any significant election as a member of the party).

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-07-28 05:56am

Tsyroc wrote:
Simon H.Johansen wrote:What was Ross Perot's stance anyway??
I think his main selling point was his success in business. He was supposed to "fix" whatever problems the US government had by running it more like a business.

And what did he mean by THAT?

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-07-28 06:07am

Simon H.Johansen wrote:
Tsyroc wrote:
Simon H.Johansen wrote:What was Ross Perot's stance anyway??
I think his main selling point was his success in business. He was supposed to "fix" whatever problems the US government had by running it more like a business.
And what did he mean by THAT?

Sorry. At the time, since the cold war was over, it was important to retool the US government's spending policies. Plus people were tired of all the money wasted in various government programs. Basically, the idea was that he'd make the US government work like a successful business. No more spending more money than you had. Things would be made more streamlined and efficient. That sort of thing.

He was (is) a self made billionaire so people tended to believe he could do it.

I think that many of the people in the US were ready for government to do more things differently than how they had been done the last 50 years. Both Clinton and Perot seemed to be pushing that type of agenda more than Bush was.

I should point out that I was in the Navy at the time so my exposure to what was going on in politics was a bit more spotty than someone who wasn't living on a ship at the time.