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Trouble is, the Reform Party can't even find someone to run for its top slot--other than Perot. Last week the most likely alternative, former Republican Senator and independent Governor Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, said he would not run. Any Reform Party nominee would have to bring his own bankroll or rely on those dread special interests, since campaign-finance laws prohibit Perot from spending his billions on anyone for President but himself. That means the Reform Party may wind up being about Ross Perot after...
...last thing I want to be seen to be doing here is comparing Ross Perot to a corgi. I don't go in for that sort of thing. As a guarantee of that, I want to make it clear from the start that the word yappy will not be used...
...yappy. I think it's fair to say that small dogs carry with them a certain suspicion of yappiness, as do small people. But I wouldn't go any further than that. The reason I wouldn't go any further is that owners of corgis--in common with Ross Perot--are quick to take offense...
...number of corgi owners have complained to TIME, for instance, simply because I pointed out in this space that corgis appear to be put together with parts borrowed from a number of other dogs--the parts, as it happens, that the other dogs were quite happy to pass along. Perot himself complained to CNN not long ago simply because William Kristol, the neocon sound biter, said on a CNN program that he believes Perot to be insane...
...must have been astonished to get Perot's call. Ordinarily, you can say pretty much anything you want to about politicians. Far from complaining, they're likely to join in. At the beginning of the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, for instance, commentators danced around the question of whether Senator Phil Gramm had come up short in the looks department--something on the order of what I'd implied, in the friendliest sort of way, about corgis...