Word: perotisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ROSS PEROT Hulk Hogan is running for President in 2000. That's going to really splinter the crazy vote...
...making a run for the presidency. In the end, Iacocca decided against it, realizing he would never have the patience required to deal with Congress. Compromising to achieve consensus wasn't his long suit, he told me. It would be good if others seeking the presidency, such as Ross Perot and son-of-a-businessman Steve Forbes, better understood this handicap...
...part, he's been lucky. When he took office, Bush was the beneficiary of a decade's worth of reform efforts beginning with Ross Perot's mid-'80s movement to reduce class sizes and install statewide testing and accountability. By 1995 the state education code had been scrapped and the legislature was at work on a new one that would push authority down to the local school districts. Like any gifted politician, Bush commandeered the train, adding some cars of his own and taking credit for laying its track...
...President in 2000. "When Jesse won, I said to my wife, 'My God, I'm 10 times more popular than him,'" says the man once known as Sterling Golden. "People know Hulk Hogan like they know McDonald's and Chevrolet." According to Hogan, those people include Ross Perot, Ted Turner and Oprah Winfrey, all of whom make the wrestler's short list for potential running mates--none of whom have yet been approached. Hogan feels his lack of political experience, or any real knowledge of policy whatsoever, will not be a hindrance. "If you have a lot of specialized people...
...words for Minnesotans anticipating Jesse "The Mind" Ventura's new term as governor of the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes (and by the way, his real name is James Janos), it would seem to behoove them to get ready for something. Rough-and-tumble populism? Muscular, mustachioed libertarianism? Ross Perot in tights? Let's take a look at the Ventura canon...