Ross Perot re-surfaces

[Ernesto]

Perot said it remained to be seen if the (tea party) movement would evolve into a third party in U.S. politics or if a leader of the loosely organized group would emerge.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100421/ap_on_re_us/us_perot_tea_party

[Birthmark]

1. Did the family request an exhumation or something?

[HopeHoops]

2. Did he have a half-hour infomercial with charts about the teabaggers?

:shrug:

[louis-t]

3. Can ah finish?

[gmoney]

4. Say what you like, but he was right about NAFTA.

Or as a Canadian friend of mine remarked at the time "NAFTA is the agreement to turn Canada into a third-world country."

[humblebum]

6. Yes, he was. nt

[Ernesto]

7. You got that right! nt

[RB TexLa]

8. As wrong on it as the loony idiot is on most everything else.

[salguine]

10. The crazy little man was actually right about a lot of things. And when he got 19%

of the popular vote, it scared both the Republicans and Democrats so badly that they collaborated to create the Commission on Presidential Debates, whose sole purpose was to ensure that no third party candidate would ever get into a debate ever again.

[laughingliberal]

15. And he nailed our health care system

"You paid for a Cadillac and got a Pinto."

[mdmc]

18. sh'nough

[Winterblues]

5. Screaming No and stomping one's feet is not a real movement.

They need to offer something realistic or shut the fuck up.. iow shit or get off the pot.

[Naturalist111]

9. Damn I knew I should have used nylon marine rope tied to those

cinder blocks!

[sharesunited]

11. I know I have lived a long time when I see the same political "phenomenon" repeat itself.

I will run if the volunteers put me on the ballot.

[Motown_Johnny]

12. well maybe if he kicked in a billion dollars or so the 'baggers would be able to form a party

and I tell ya, for a billion I could form one hell of a party!

[cynatnite]

13. At least he's not a raving lunatic racist like the rest of the teabaggers. n/t

[lurky]

14. 3rd party? The Tea Party is just a "grass roots" rebranding of the GOP.

Kinda like how Blackwater is now Exelon or Phillip Morris is now Altria.

Their beliefs, their members, their leaders, even their talking-points, all come directly from the Republican Party. I can't think of a single ideological issue in which the Tea Party "movement" deviates from the official conservative GOP party line. The one major difference seems to be that the Tea Party encourages its members to use openly violent and racist rhetoric. This is convenient for the GOP, since they can then pretend they have nothing to do with those crazy teabaggers whenever some nutjob cross the line. A kind of straw man for plausible deniability.

The Perot crowd, as looney as they were, were a legitimate rebellion against the two dominant parties, IMO.

[DefenseLawyer]

16. Rahm is banking on him running for President in 2012.

Expect Sista Souljah to re-surface sometime soon as well.

[NNN0LHI]

17. Still never seen a picture of Perot and Gabby Hayes standing next to one another

I think they are the same guy.

Don