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There had been some apprehension last week that ROSS PEROT would throw his hat into the ring of Reform Party presidential politics, thus turning an already turbulent situation hopelessly chaotic. Once upon a time--well, in 1992--the party Perot founded had earned a phenomenal 19% of the presidential vote. In 1996, it still managed to win 8.5%. Lately, however, there have been problems. The party's star performer, Governor JESSE VENTURA of Minnesota, bolted earlier this year. The strange alliance between PATRICK BUCHANAN, from the right, and Lenora Fulani, from the left, has collapsed. So there was some relief...
Steve Forbes, Ross Perot, Ron Lauder, Michael Huffington: Millionaire political novices running self-financed campaigns tend to stir up more chuckles than consternation - as long as they lose. But ex-Goldman Sachs honcho Jon Corzine put $34 million of his own money into all the right pockets. He greased New Jersey Democrat "party-builders" and got out the vote instead of blowing it all on advertising (though he did plenty of that too - $34 million allows you a certain flexibility). He broke all records for Senate campaign spending, and the main event is yet to come...
...participating in a televised debate against the other vice presidential candidate(s). Please answer the question so eloquently posed by a former vice presidential candidate, Ross Perot's 1992 running mate, Admiral James Stockdale, in this forum: "Who am I? Why am I here...
...They will never sport the male ego. They will never be as obnoxious--presumably Wolfe believes women will indeed ask for directions--and they will never embody the same kind of honor that, in Wolfe's example, gave James Stockdale (the admiral who was humiliated as Ross Perot's '92 running-mate) the strength to persevere through eight years of Vietnamese torture, including four years of solitary confinement. The warrior mentality grew into the manliness that is both heroic and foolish...
...commission set such a high threshold in '96, in part to keep Perot out of the debates," Campbell says...