Word: perots
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Administration," says Mitch Daniels, Bush's budget director. "It is not the top or the only priority." Republican consultants are betting the White House will not have to pay for this position. "The public still doesn't like red ink," says Frank Luntz, a G.O.P. consultant who advised Ross Perot, the independent candidate who made federal deficits a potent issue in the 1992 presidential campaign. "But they're willing to pay now for national security and an economic recovery and deal with deficits later...
With the Bush White House projecting a $304 billion federal deficit this year, plus annual flows of red ink as far as the eye can see, it's fair to say that Ross Perot's crazy aunt is back. In the 1992 campaign, the folksy, jug-eared Texas zillionaire rode public anxiety over the stagnant economy - specifically the burgeoning national debt he compared to a crazy aunt in the basement no one wanted to mention - to the best third-party showing in a presidential election in 80 years. Budget deficits became such a potent political issue that Bill Clinton...
...Have deficits lost their political sting? "The public still doesn't like red ink," says Frank Luntz, a GOP consultant who advised Perot. "But they're willing to pay now for national security, and an economic recovery, and deal with deficits later." The White House is betting Luntz is right. The deficits, Bush aides claim, are manageable; as a percentage of GDP, they still don't rival those faced by Ronald Reagan and the current president's father. "Nobody likes deficits, but the public will give this president the benefit of the doubt," adds one Bush adviser. "They liked Perot...
...told my husband in 1992 that Ross Perot wouldn’t affect the election,” she said. “Then I told my son that running for governor would never work out. And when he wanted to run for president, that wouldn’t work out either. So much for my political expertise...
...back to the private sector." This from a man who during his one term wrote a book, did color commentary for the now defunct XFL and consulted on a Broadway musical about his life, which, sadly, was abandoned the day of his announcement. Using a trick from Ross Perot's playbook, he cited a desire to protect his family as the reason for his departure. This was apparently in reaction to an article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune that said his son Tyrel, 22, threw raucous parties in the Governor's mansion and left it littered with empty wine...