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...just want to state at the outset, as the former pollster for Ross Perot, I didn't leave the Republican Party. The Republican Party left...
...Bill Clinton has no right claiming that he is the new Ross Perot. He assumes that his comments about political reform, shared sacrifice, tax increase and empowerment entitles him to the Perot constituency. Well, I know Ross Perot. I worked for Ross Perot. Mr. Clinton, you're no Ross Perot. You're not even Admiral Stockdale...
Certainly there is room for improvement in Clinton's plan, particularly in its credibility. Many detect a widening gap between Clinton's plan and his rhetoric. Ross Perot brought his traveling road show to a joint House and Senate panel and complained that Clinton's effort to call a new tax on Social Security benefits a spending cut was too sneaky by half. "Just call a spade a spade," said Perot. "It's not a savings, it's a tax." Similarly, the President denounced government waste last week, but he is not above rolling the pork barrel himself. He found...
...missed Clinton's jam session on Arsenio. Never saw Perot take calls on CNN. Wrote a column about the debates without seeing them. (In my defense, I offer the classic academic's line--I read the reviews.) Heard about Stockdale's virtuoso performance two days later. Didn't see Bush get defensive on network news. Missed Buchanan's tirade at the Republican Convention. I wonder if my grandchildren will believe me when I explain that it was hard to participate in history without cable...
According to Wilhelm, college age students are very important to the Democratic party. They need to get in touch with us disaffected types before we all go and vote for Perot in large numbers again. Today's younger generation (Wilhelm seemed in blissful ignorance of the Alexander Star article in The New Republic that pointed out that there really is no such thing) is looking to its future, economically insecure and politically alienated, said Wilhelm. He actually said that youth were the most economically insecure group. Kind of makes you wonder about all those wonderfully secure poor people, doesn...