Newsgroups: alt.politics.clinton,alt.politics.perot,talk.politics.misc,alt.politics.bush
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 10:45:27 -0400 
From: "Donpaul C. Stephens" <ds8k+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Thoughts on '92

frederic@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Brian Frederick) said:

>  Does _anyone_ truely believe that either Bush or Clinton can turn 
>the nation's economy around in only 4 years?  Neither has a serious 
>plan to tackle the defecit.  Their entire platforms revolve around 
>getting in (or staying in) the Oval Office.  That's winning the game.
 
answer:
1. No, not me.  I think the only out we have is for Perot to come back
and do it.  Doesn't it seem funny how he 'dropped?'  The two political
partites have A LOT more power than your average joe wants to admit. 
I'd be willing to wager that the unfare deal that Perot got from most of
the press is directly due to this.

They both have basically equivalent power, so they can equilize their
effects on each other, but given a prominent likely 3rd party candidate?
 You think Perot has money?  Look at a USA Today from a few weeks ago. 
On the front cover [i don't have it, but i saw it].  Look how much money
they control  -  they have allmost all the political power in the
country to back it up too!

 
>  Do we elect people who are able to do the difficult job of running 
>this country, making things work, getting things done?  No.  We elect 
>the people who look nice and make us feel good.  They may not be able 
>to do the job, but _what_ interviewing skills.  

Oh yeah, never vote for who we would really want.  Why do you think
Perot didn't like the press, they were trying to give him a raw deal for
the most part.  If you don't get the coverage, you look bad.  The thing
was- he wasn't getting the coverage of good journalism and people who
have watched him over the pasr decade or more saw straight through it.

> 
>  In '84  Reagan swept Mondale. It was called a landslide, yet only half 
>the eligable voters turned out at the polls.  25% of our potential 
>voters constitute a landslide.  
> 
>  I used to think the American people deserved better.  Now I think we 
>get the government we deserve.  
> 
>  I used to have hope.  Now I'm resigned to 4 more years of incompetent
>deceit, regardless who wins.

Hear again.  We are only presented with two candidates from old parties
without a future.  The american public is fed lines from the press and
those who are motivated to go to the polls vote for the lesser of two
evils.

No, we shouldn't have to live with it.  Watch the third parties the
press try to weed out, actually pay attention to what the candidates are
saying from one town to the next.  Especially, don't take these bull
stories from any newspaper or tv show.  If it sounds like candidate
[insert your favorite politicain here] is getting a bogus story, they
probably are.  If it truly is so bad, they will be asked about it and
you will get to here both sides of that issue

kust my .02 for the morning

Donpaul C. Stephens
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Ross Perot in '92
    - the only candidate that realizes the govn't needs fixed...not tweaked

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