From: jbm@panix.com (John Mignault)
Subject: Re: Msg from Perot list on 800 number. Chris Morrison.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 23:49:14 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

In <POLITICS%92093014250103@OHSTVMA.ACS.OHIO-STATE.EDU> CMORRISO@SNYESCVA.BITNET writes:

>If you want Perot to re-enter the race call the 800 number.  You will
>get a recorded message saying that your support is important to UNITED WE
>STAND, AMERICA and that your phone call will be counted as a call of support.

>If you do not wish Perot to re-enter the race -- DO NOT CALL THE NUMBER.
>If you want to voice something other than support for Perot's re-entry into
>the Presidential race, you should probably telephone the UNITED WE STAND,
>AMERICA headquarters in your area of the country, or the headquarters in
>Dallas.

Even when the redoubtable Hard Copy asks people to phone vote on Amy Fisher
issues, they provide 2 numbers: one to vote "yes" and one to vote "no."
Here we have a whole different choice. You can "encourage" Old Yeller for
free, or you can make a toll call to the RossenBunker in Dallas.

>The sense I got from the Larry King show is that Perot is waiting to hear
>from supporters and particularly from the volunteers who were in Dallas to
>hear the pitch from the Dems and Reps.

The sense I've gotten is that Perot still suffers from the same problems he
had in July. The King show was a masterpiece in Ross-man's insisting on
substantial chunk-style "issues" discussion while amazingly never actually
discussing those very issues! We seem to have gone from "Read my lips" to
"Read my book/quickie paperback/graphics-driven annual
reportette/scrawled-on cocktail napkin/misspelled flash card." When he's
not dispensing folksy "You can't give the cow a hot-oil massage iffen the
apple's got a worm in the belfry"-type stuff.

And boy, if you thought Dukakis took a vaca in the '88 Bushfest, Perot
redefines the concept. What a stratagem! Come back with 5 weeks left in the
race and say that he's back because the volunteers didn't think the party
candidates were discussing the issues enough! Hoo boy. As compared to
Perot's rather Zen-like non-discussion of said issues in toto. Except of
course for the aforementioned "United We Stand(tm)." (aka "Read the Book"--
and BTW, somebody oughta buy him a copy, since, as the NYT said today, he
can never seem to find it when anybody asks 'im what's IN the damn thing)

And Larry King seems to have gone to the Merv Griffin School of Talk Show
Hosting. Mike Wallace was right on when he called the questions "softballs."

>At the present time everyone is speculating what Ross Perot will do; will he
>enter the race?  will he back another candidate? (and wasn't he a Republican
>plant all along) etc., etc.  I would hope that he re-enters the race and gives
>it all he has.  I will be most disappointed if he throws his support (and
>therefore tries to throw the support of the United We Stand... participants)
>behind another candidate.  I would hope that he will not endorse another
>candidate should he decline to re-enter the race.

Yeah, it's so much more fun to have the awful spectacle of the party
candidates sucking up to Perot like nobody's business. Everybody in this
whole sorry affair has gone down in my estimation by about half (your
mileage may vary).


--John Mignault
	jbm@panix.com
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