Word: perotism
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...professed adherence to Ross Perot's Reform Party ideals, coupled with his idiosyncratic proposals, has prompted voters to ask whether Hagelin is carrying the mantle of the Reform Party or whether he is just an eccentric...
With his running mate, Nat Goldhaber, Hagelin has garnered support from the New York Independence Party, the Natural Law Party and what he terms "the best of the Reform Party" to try to sustain the party founded by Perot...
...when he's in a fight. He's always been a tough, take-no-prisoners campaigner; he was almost always the first person in the White House to pick a fight with Republicans, start an argument, tell Dick Armey off in a private White House meeting or put Ross Perot on the spot. That was a huge calling card in a White House that often woke up each morning and read in the papers that it had been given up for dead...
...Nader victory now will not necessarily help the Green Party in four years. If this is all about the 5 percent, the experience of the Reform Party should also provide a poignant example. This year, Pat Buchanan had the opportunity to blow $26 million dollars that equally fervent Ross Perot supporters won for the Reform Party in 1996 by garnering 7 percent of the vote. Reporting at the Reform Party convention(s) in Long Beach, found old-time Reformers flabbergasted by the way Buchanan could bring his hard-line Republican supporters into their party in search of money. Some...
...Bill Clinton pulled the Democratic Party to the right; yes, Gore is not the most inspiring political leader of all time. Perot voters, disaffected Democrats, I feel your pain. Gore and Lieberman are not the leaders of Americas political left--but neither is Ralph Nader or the Green Party, liberals that they are. They just aren't leaders...