From: sieferme@milton.u.washington.edu (Eric Sieferman)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.elections,alt.politics.clinton,alt.politics.bush
Subject: Re: 1-800-BEND-OVER
Date: 30 Sep 92 20:47:49 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

In article <1992Sep30.000550.18017@gibdo.engr.washington.edu> 
bobk@gibdo.engr.washington.edu (Bob) writes:
>  That post is a good example of how the campaign has been going so far.
>  The Democrats and Republicans talk about everything but the real 
>  problems of the country.  

About the only REAL problem I've heard HRP discuss is the budget deficit,
and there is considerable debate among economists as to how much
of a problem the current deficit is.

>  What do you care of how Perot runs his campaign?  If you want to talk
>  about silly issues like this, stick to your own party.

Perot says that the "people" will decide if he runs for prez., then
concocts an 800- number which only registers "yes" votes.
This is political theater at its most cynical, right down
there with the RepubliCon sleezemeisters.

>The Democrats
>  and Republicans ran $35 million pep rallies that excluded dissent.
>  The Republicans brought in hundreds of young Republicans who were not
>  delegates to make it look like there was more support and enthusiasm
>  than there really was.  The Democrats wouldn't let the governor of
>  Pennsylvania present an anti-abortion stance.  Delegates who were 
>  supposed to give "spontaneous" interviews were coached and rehearsed
>  their lines up to seven times.

Does the Perot "campaign" have dissident views expressed by
members of the Perot Party?  Hardly.
>
>  Wake up and look are around.  It is the Democrats and Republicans, not
>  Perot, who have been screwing you for years.  This, and not Perot's 800
>  number or his campaign, is the real problem.  

True.  Neither H. Ross Perot not I have been screwing the US
for years.  I guess that this makes me qualified to
be his VP candidate.

>  Perot's candidacy may be the healthiest thing to happen to our political
>  process in our lifetimes.  To see this go take a look in any Perot
>  headquarters in the next 5 weeks.  Perot's citizens' movement is as
>  close to true "democracy in action" as you can get. 
>
>  I have probably done more work for Democratic candidates than 99.9% of
>  the people reading this group.  There is no comparison between Perots 
>  campaign and those of the establishment parties.  The establishment
>  parties value money, not people and have developed a corrupt system of
>  institutionalized bribery they call campaign contributions.  They need
>  the money to manipulate the media and fool the people.  This is a sick,
>  cynical version of democracy that is more into game playing than problem
>  solving.

Of course, HRP does not need to be sullied by campaign
bribery.  HE IS A BILLIONAIRE!  He has no contributors to
be accountable to.  If not for his wealth, his ideas
would be getting as much airplay as Marrou or Greitz.

>  With Perot about to enter the race, there is has been more talk about
>  the deficit in the media in the last few days than in the the all the
>  months before that combined.  Maybe we can stop arguing about fictional
>  television characters and how another campaign should use its 800
>  number and get down business.

Some of us are more concerned with HOW the federal government
spends its (our) money than in the size of its borrowings.

>  We need Perot to give the system and people like the poster of the
>  previous article a good swift kick in the butt.

The butt-kicking element is the one part of the HRP campaign
that I enjoy.  Unfortunately, this may lead other billionaires
to think that they are also political wizards and should
join in to our quadrennial horserace.  Maybe in 1996,
HRP could run against Bill Gates.

>  Bob                                       Seattle, Washington
>


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