I’m pretty sure that this time, unlike 1992, he won’t be jumping back in.
He won 19% of the popular vote in 1992, the most of any third party candidate in the past 100 years. He might even have won the race if he hadn’t quit for a while. On June 15th, Time Magazine reported that he was the front-runner by a wide margin, preferred by 37% of voters, compared to 24% each for Bush and Clinton.
I guess you’re not supposed to speak ill of the dead, so I probably shouldn’t mention that I knew several people who worked for Perot at EDS and they all, without exception, felt he was a complete asshole, including the ones who became millionaires thanks to Perot.
But I’ll mention it anyway because, although he contributed a lot to various humanitarian causes and was right about many things, Perot was above all an annoying, self-absorbed little fuck.
Update from the comments:
Ross Perot is currently lobbying for a third choice, citing the corrupt dichotomy of Heaven and Hell.
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