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...Perot's centurions, some of whom are on his payroll. Three days later, the mercurial billionaire announced that his followers around the country, having found Bush and Clinton wanting, were demanding his active candidacy. Perot twanged that he was "honored to accept their request." Then he introduced his running mate, retired Vice Admiral James Stockdale ("a hero's hero"), and only vaguely alluded to his tough economic recovery plan. As in the initial phase of his campaign, Perot played most heavily on his status as a nonpolitician: "The people want a new political climate where the system does not attract...
...economy ahead of their worries about the planet. Thus the Bush campaign is attempting to paint Bill Clinton as a hostage to environmental extremists who would sacrifice American jobs to mollify the tree huggers. Point man in this assault: Vice President Dan Quayle. His main target: Clinton's running mate, Al Gore...
With so many neophytes in such critical positions, they will need all the enthusiasm they can muster. At the top of Perot's new brain trust is a tiny coterie of true believers: Swindle, running mate James B. Stockdale, legal adviser (and son-in-law) Clayton Mulford, media chief Murphy Martin and press secretary Sharon Holman. The 55-year-old Swindle has some seasoning in a political campaign, having been a congressional district chairman in his native Georgia during Ronald Reagan's 1980 race...
Consider, for example, a presidential race in which the leading candidate tap-dances and croons torch songs, carries on a tabloid affair with a beauty- pageant entrant and has a running mate who is a national joke when he's not a faceless nonentity. This party's winning agenda consists of one word: love. Americans are urged to vote their belief in romance, and overwhelmingly they fall...
...just like Pinocchio." A Democratic statement accuses the President of "intentionally lying to win the election." Presidential press secretary Marlin Fitzwater contends that Clinton's "regard for honesty and veracity is so low that he has no business calling anybody else a liar." Al Gore, Clinton's running mate, describes G.O.P. campaign strategy as a "big-lie technique." Dan Quayle argues that detractors are lying about his position on single motherhood...