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...ahead of my time. Since February, the anti-incumbent, anti-Washington, anti-politician mood has coalesced behind one unlikely leader--not consumer advocate Ralph Nader, but Texas billionaires Ross Perot...
Where Nader's raiders failed, Perot's posse has succeeded, at least so far. Perot has gained millions of signatures on petitions to put him on ballots nationwide, and his standing in the polls rival that of President Bush and Gov. Bill Clinton. More importantly, the still-undeclared candidate has gotten thousands of Americans involved in the political system and has given them a cause to believe...
Convincing regular people to get involved in politics and take over the government was what the Nader campaign was all about. I was all for it, and I still am. Paradoxically, though, watching the Perot campaign succeed with a variation on Nader's message has been profoundly disillusioning...
...first real mudslinging match between the two, the Bush campaign $ nearly pressed the attack too far. Rich Bond, the Republican Party chairman, was everywhere last week, accusing Perot of being too dangerous to trust with "the CIA, the FBI and the IRS." This alarming charge oozed hypocrisy, coming on the heels of news that Bush had asked Perot as recently as January 1990 to underwrite the rebuilding of Panama after the U.S. invasion. Bond nonetheless barreled on, even dialing up Larry King Live to engage Perot in a lengthy argument about the definition of a "dirty trick...
Bush's network of family and family retainers also piled on. Presidential press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said Perot's "paranoia knows no bounds," while drug czar Bob Martinez labeled Perot "not fit to be President." Casting off her grandmotherly pose, Barbara Bush called Perot's behavior "bizarre" and traced his ire at her husband to the fact that Bush had spurned a job offer from Perot 25 years ago. By the end of the week, Vice President Dan Quayle was referring to the diminutive Texan as "Inspector Perot...