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Hubbard's reasons for backing Perot stand in sharp contrast to those of many other Perot proponents. Take Rusty Korman. Korman, 40, earns more than $125,000 a year in a jewelry business in Austin, Texas...

Author: By John A. Cloud, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE IRONIES OF PEROTISM | 11/3/1992 | See Source »

Last spring, Hubbard and Korman were among those Perot bedeviled to form an old collection of supporters--those for and against abortion rights, members of both parties, people from all regions and backgrounds...

Author: By John A. Cloud, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE IRONIES OF PEROTISM | 11/3/1992 | See Source »

...Perot's army is perhaps not as unusual as his behavior this election year. Perot flirted with formally entering the race for months, appearing on television talk shows spinning cracker barrel wisdom about "our nation," "our children," "our problems." He abruptly left the race on the day Bill Clinton accepted his party's nomination, leaving many to think Perot tacitly endorsed what he then called "the revitalized Democratic Party...

Author: By John A. Cloud, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE IRONIES OF PEROTISM | 11/3/1992 | See Source »

...even after Perot's mercurial conduct, he is poised to garner the votes of perhaps 21 million Americans today, if last week's polls prove correct. Still, that may be one of the smallest ironies in a movement full of them...

Author: By John A. Cloud, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE IRONIES OF PEROTISM | 11/3/1992 | See Source »

Indeed, it is these ironies that seem clearest as the Texas entrepreneur's quixotic bid for the White House ends--for better or worse. Ironies that run thicker than Perot's twangy Texas accent, thicker than the tumbleweeds that drift outside his hometown of Texarkana, Texas...

Author: By John A. Cloud, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE IRONIES OF PEROTISM | 11/3/1992 | See Source »

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