Word: perotism
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...sports today, everyone is Ross Perot. They're in, they're out, they're in again, they're out again--and they expect just as much love the second and third trips around the park...
...used to be the best bribe in politics, a payoff to the people that never failed to win support or votes. Then came Ross Perot and the Greenspan-Clinton deficit-reduction plan of 1993, which kicked off an eight-year economic paradise of balanced budgets, high growth and low inflation. Tax cuts, especially tax cuts for people that already had money, were selfish and irresponsible...
...best immunization against a spring contraction is to give plenty of reminders that it'll be a problem he inherited from Clinton. And a little gloom and doom is the best sales pitch in years for big across-the-board tax cuts, which haven't been popular since Ross Perot made fiscal responsibility cool again. So Bush has little reason for public optimism...
...Elvis Presley in a Land of No Alternatives. Marcus, a rock-n-roll critic best known for lively volumes on Elvis, Bob Dylan and the Sex Pistols, pinpoints Clinton's appearance on Arsenio Hall as the turnaround of his 1992 presidential bid. Considered a sure loser against Bush and Perot, Clinton swaggered on stage with his tenor saxophone, wailed a few bars of "Heartbreak Hotel" and instantly won enough support to capture the White House a few months later...
...PEROT VOTERS...