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...Republican Ed Rollins and Democrat Hamilton Jordan to guide his effort. They, in turn, have signed experienced operatives from both parties to lend the crusade an air of professionalism. In conjunction with several of Perot's former business associates, the team will determine campaign strategy, look for a running mate and help shape the candidate's stands on at least a few major issues. But the , transition from grass-roots petition drives to a high-tech political offensive has run into some bumps. Some of the revved-up volunteers who have placed him on 20 state ballots...
...Perot have been musing about similar -- even identical -- vice-presidential nominees. As political analyst Kevin Phillips puts it, "What Perot needs in a Vice President is someone who's political, yet puts the finger in the eye of the politicians. Someone like Rudman. And Clinton too needs a running mate who reinforces his outsider status with Perot swing voters...
...with Perot represents Kemp's best chance to be elected President himself in 1996. Others counsel caution -- Kemp's favored political style -- contending that bolting the g.o.p. would permanently brand the supply-side conservative a pariah. Kemp's probable reluctance illustrates Perot's quandary in finding a credible running mate willing to risk his political career on one roll of the dice...
Third-party candidates often stumble badly in their quest for a plausible No. 2. Remember General Curtis ("Bomb Them Back to the Stone Age") LeMay, George Wallace's 1968 ticket mate? Perot has already tapped retired Admiral James Stockdale, a conservative former Vietnam pow, as his stand-in running mate to get on the ballot in all 50 states. Perot calls Stockdale his "fail- safe fallback" and has said that he will, if necessary, "just go with the team we have...
...next step for Clinton and Perot: choosing a running mate...