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...American people have pretty much had it with Republicans and Democrats," he said, adding that Ross Perot's garnering of 19 percent of the vote in the 1992 Presidential election is evidence of this trend...
Special credit does go the United States for the phenomenon known as Ross Perot, but that just goes to show what a hack can do with $50 million. Perhaps only Perot and his money--"I'll build my own office building"--could have coped with being neither a Democrat nor a Republican in Washington's two-sided corridors. Without that kind of cash, a new or nontraditional party has a much better chance of getting a say north of latitude...
...Stern's infamous specialty is mean-spirited, horrendously tasteless, occasionally racist lampoons. It's he, not Limbaugh, who uses outrageous put- downs and salty language, right? Such as calling a former U.S. Senator "Alan ('the Cadaver') Cranston" and Perot "a hand grenade with a bad haircut." It's Stern, surely, who used to do an on-air stunt with vacuum- cleaner sound effects dubbed "caller abortions," who chatted with a female caller about giving him "a throat massage" with her tongue, whose current newsletter article on health-care reform is headlined BEND OVER, AMERICA, and who just last week...
They are temperamentally and often literally Perot voters. Limbaugh says when he started calling Perot a fraud and worse during last year's campaign, "the hate mail I was getting was the most I'd ever received. And it was scary -- 'You represent to us exactly what Perot represents...
...battle for congressional approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement. That pact, which would tear down most trade barriers between the U.S., Mexico and Canada, is faring poorly under the damaging "air war" of television ads, talk-show appearances and telephone banks designed by labor unions and Ross Perot. So Clinton is fighting back in defilade -- in the congressional districts of 100 undecided lawmakers whom he believes can be won over with special attention and favors...