Word: perotism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...motivated by a need to redeem his father's defeat. He keeps bringing it up in a way that suggests it has been his life's deepest wound. Last Wednesday he said that Buchanan's 1992 candidacy had had a role in derailing his father, and suggested that Ross Perot carried a "vendetta" against his family. In McCain's story his father comes across as a source of humility and as inspiration for public service. Bush, on the other hand, seems to have inherited his sense of entitlement from his father, and after the President's defeat, an ongoing personal...
...proud moment for Minnesotans, especially if you made the mistake of watching. Then, in September, Ventura touted Donald Trump as a presidential candidate. Let's be clear about this: anyone who imagines Donald Trump in the White House has the brains of a stale bagel. Donald Trump makes Ross Perot look like a giant. Jesse Ventura was the first man, aside from the men in Mr. Trump's employ, ever to make this imaginative leap...
...four years, he'll be where our boy from Texas [Perot] is--only without the money," he said. "It's a predictable aberration; every four to 10 years in American politics there's a character like Rush Limbaugh or Jerry Falwell with something interesting to say who becomes a repository for despair within the existing system...
Buchanan has a tentative nod from the Reform Party's founder and father-figure, Perot, but the arch-conservative's isolationist politics clash with Ventura's libertarian leanings...
When Ventura's hand-picked candidate to be president of the Reform Party beat out Perot's incumbent earlier this summer, Ventura positioned himself to control both the party's national offices and, as its highest elected official, its national image...