From: falknemj@cnsvax.uwec.edu
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: why perot?
Date: 24 Sep 92 23:44:45 -0600
Distribution: talk
Organization: University of Wisconsin Eau Claire

In article <farenebt.717351123@craft.camp.clarkson.edu>, farenebt@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Droopy) writes:
> lois.laulicht@channel1.com (lois laulicht) writes:
> 
>>Why Perot?
>>Lois Laulicht@Channel1
> 
>>It's been a strange two months since Ross Perot's withdrawal from
>>the Presidential race!  After the hollering, groaning,
>>name-calling, and other political gymnastics wound down, discussion
>>of issues also settled into the too familiar political posturing
>>without saying much substantively. It was as though Mr. Perot's
>>disdain of politics as usual also provided the road markers for the
>>same-old, same-old, and more same-old, political business as usual.
> 
> Perot's showing his disdain for politics, "If I am put on the ballot
> in all 50 states, I will run." and then he drops out. Definitely better
> at promise-keeping that any other politician.

  I'll stop you right there.  You notice that this discussion has only really
resurfaced when Arizona put in their petitions to become the 50th state. 
Actually sounds like he's fulfilling the promise to me...
 
>>Ross Perot has attracted people from diverse backgrounds and
>>political pursuasions by not conducting political business as usual.
>>He is the only contender who has dared to look at public enemy
>>#1--the national deficit and public enemy #2 our failing education
>>system with courage and truth. His written and spoken record is
>>there for anyone who wishes to see, to have a look.
> 
> How he addresed the national deficit? "I could balance the budget without
> breaking a sweat."

 He probably could, because he's the only one with the guts and the plan to do
it.  Ask Bush, Quayle, Gore, and Clinton if they even have a plan THAT CAN
WORK.
 
> Our failing education system is due in large part to "absentee parenting".
> It's 99% the parents fault and 1% teachers, studetns and administrators.

  That's not the only thing that he can blame absentee parenting for.  And it
might be pretty well on the mark.  He's gone head to head with education people
before.
 
>>I strongly question this assertion and put it in the
>>same category as "I didn't inhale"; the politicizing of the
>>fictional Murphy Brown and her just as fictional pregnancy; draft
>>evasion of Quayle and Clinton; questions of family values; and
>>the present debate over the non-debates.  Talk about mass evasion of
>>anything that's really important to most people.
> 
> What did Perot talk about besides balancing the budget without a
> sweat and slamming the 2 major parties?

  What have the two major parties done for the last umpteen years but slam each
other and create a $4 trillion debt.  (I think that's the right # of 0's now.)
 
>>I don't believe that Ross Perot has instant answers for any of us.
> 
> Then Perot is not getting his message across to you.

  His book says he can do it in five years.  You want it tomorrow, go to the
Dalai Lama <inswrt other deity here too>.
 
>>The "Why Perot?" speaks to a sense of a man who will go the distance
>>to do his very best, is beholden to know one, and if given a solid
>>piece of time, has the imagination, integrity, and intellegence to
>>bring the best in the nation into roles of leadership to begin
>>addressing these overwhelming national problem.
>  
> Leadership? His very best? Skipping the heat and taking the easy road out by
> coming back now? That's what I want, a thin-skinned prez. A guy
> who will invade any country that annoys him.

  Well, many say the same about the Republicans that were in office (Reagan,
Bush) about thin skin and invasions.

  As far as skipping the heat, maybe it's his ultimate strategy.  If he can't
have the chance to be refuted, his people may vote for him.  Right??

>>It's been interesting to note the need to identify both major
>>campaigns with a man who typifies just plain America.  The single person
>>in the pack most like straight talking Harry Truman is this small, in
>>physical stature only, man from Texas.  Maybe we'll be real lucky
>>and he'll come back into the race.
> 						
> Perot is Harry Truman? Hah. Truman didn't skip most of the campaign. 
> He took the heat from reporters and his opponents. He didn't drop out
> when the going got tough and come back near the end. At least BUsh
> and Clinton have faced the reporters and the criticisms and the scandals
> with a fair amount of dignity. Perot called it quits.

  WHOA WHOA WHOA!! He said most like Truman.  And he's not playing by the rules
of the two parties, which tend to perpetuate themselves.  Perot may have felt
Clinton could beat Bush on his own, but now he may think differently (draft
issue, Hillary, taxes, etc.)

  Take a good long look at Perot, and you may see the man who will help shape
politics into the next century.

						Mike Falkner
						falknemj@cnsvax.uwec.edu

Oh, and by the way.  I think Clinton could stand more to gain if Perot gets
back in than Bush.  So don't scream too loud.

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