Ross Perot is DEAD TO ME

The first vote I ever cast—in our grade school mock election. Probably with the same level of thought as the adults who actually voted for him.

Good riddance

He was a joke.

I just remember the fucking EARS.

He and Paul Ryan both have the same flapping ears.

Ross Perot is, like, the third or fourth person to die recently where I really thought they were long gone already.

Oh no!

I think the bigger news, for me anyway, is that he was still living.

Yeah he was funny looking

We actually need someone to do what he did in terms of bringing awareness of the public debt.

Can you hear me?!!!!

You people...

His one value is that he split the right so Clinton could win. Not that that's such a great thing, though.

What do you mean, R13?

Votes between GHW Bush and Perot split for Clinton to pull ahead.

“Can I Finish??”

So young!

Yes, I know that, R15.

What did you mean by the split not being a good thing?

Who am I? Why am I in this thread?

Another one bites the dust!

And here's a photo of him. He was 89.

Clinton winning was not such a great thing, in hindsight.

R22, Clinton was definitely better than Bush & Dole (including for gays).

Too young!

Perot was actually 100% correct about NAFTA and the "giant sucking sound" it would cause by draining American jobs.

NAFTA was probably better for the American economy as a whole ... but its legacy of lost Midwestern jobs is one reason we ended up with Trump as president.

Reunited and it feels sooo good!

What Hillary & the Democrats should have pointed out more in 2016 was that it was the Republican Administration of George Bush Senior that set up NAFTA in the first place. Bill Clinton signed it in the end because Bush Senior lost the election, but it was the right-wing business community who were behind it.

I remember the debates and Ross Perot looked like an idiot. Back then, it was the kiss of death and so it should be. Fast forward to 2016 and another imbecile billionaire won the election for the very same quality that was so detrimental for Perot. Oh yeah, and the Orange one LIES all the time. That quality was once the kiss of death for a politician but now it's worn like a badge of honor. My, how times have changed.

Broke the suffocating 12 yr Reagan-Bush right wing Theocracy/Military Dictatorship

Good observations, R28.

The rise of reality t.v. and celebrity culture (of which Trump himself is a product) set in motion the events of 2016.

RIP, dude.

R24, are you also R17?

[quote]I remember the debates and Ross Perot looked like an idiot.

The guy I felt sorry for was that poor fool Perot picked as his running mate. That man was painful watch.

Watch it, r33!

The first presidential election I voted in was in 1992 and I voted for Perot, because I lived in a red state and thought Perot had a chance of beating Bush for our electoral votes.

He got 27% and Bush got 38%. Learned a big lesson about "viable" third-party candidates.

R35, what did Clinton get in your state?

89? So young.

R37 are you also R24 and r17?

R38: Are you the hall monitor? The hall MARY?

R38 I am not!

I am R37, the person who *actually did that little piece of theater correctly.*

Now scurry or I'll slap you like I used to slap my awful sister.

And with a giant sucking sound he disappeared in the bowels of Hell.

Tehe, R41.

He was crazy.

Remember his rant about paratroopers descending on his daughters' wedding?

Myth!

Will my billions ensure me a place in the "good" part of heaven? Not next to.... those people.

Bottom line of video at r44: Exit polls consistently show Perot took votes equally from Bush and Clinton

He was trash.

Yes r38, because there’s nothing more exhausting (except maybe you) than reading the same tired jokes post after post after post.

Especially when they weren’t funny to begin with.

So what was the deal with his daughter? She posed for some lesbian pictures and Bush Sr. was going to release them on her wedding day? So Perot dropped out the first time because of this, right?

This is the first thing I thought of when I heard the news. Some of the 90s show we had as kids were truly awful.

R48 Is new here. A "Too young" post is a DL requirement when a crusty dusty old fart dies.

I've been waiting for "He had a huge cock but he couldn't live forever".

He will never be president.

Evil old man. He would bill former employees for all their training costs if they got fired.

Another scumbag gone.

R51, not new here. Not by a long shot. Of course it’s DL requisite, but it had been said three times.

C’mon, it loses its luster fast.

One of the better Time Magazine covers of the time.

Wasn't Cher a passionate supporter of his?

He lost me -if he ever had me- when he made his statement that he would not have any gays in his Cabinet. Buh bye.

I think about Ross Perot every time I escape through the Hatch in DEAD BY DAYLIGHT.

Perot used to talk about "That Giant Sucking Sound" when referring to the outsourcing of American jobs.

And a Giant Sucking Sound is how you find the Hatch and win DEAD BY DAYLIGHT.

Ross Perot fucked with the Texas school system and I lost a scholarship on a technicality because of it.

He gave a speech at the college that I attended in the mid-80s in Texas. Later that afternoon I was walking to a class, turned a corner, and ran smack into him. I am a woman, about 5'4" and I could literally look him in the eye. He was a very short man. He glared at me and he and his posse carried on.

I shook his hand after a speech in Salt Lake City, r60. You're right, he's short.

One of my friends, who is a bigoted conservative, said Perot had a weak handshake and he could tell he'd never worked hard a day in his life.

He's fine! He sends his love!

R54 C'mon!!! It's a silly DL meme. That kind of stupid DL overplayed shit is the glue that binds us. It's like an inside joke. We know it's lame, played out, and tired but it's why we love it. It's like when I called a FB bitch a house frau and the entire interwebs were like, "What's a frau?" Lol! Really?

R48 is having a very, very heavy flow day and really needs to change her bloody tampon.

All right, now listen, all right? Now everybody knows your coon hound can't refinish your basement unless he smokes a corncob pipe and he's won at least two Peabody Awards, all right?

[quote]what did Clinton get in your state?

Laid.

[quote] One of my friends, who is a bigoted conservative

Any you’re friends with him why precisely?

[quote] he could tell he'd never worked hard a day in his life.

I don’t know about Ross Senior, but his son Ross Junior is an extremely hard working and dedicated man in running his businesses.

He looked like a Ferengi.

[quote] He looked like a Ferengi.

Didhe enjoy Oomax?

Ross Jr is worse

I voted for him in 1992 because Cher told me to.

Of course he helped Clinton win. And '92 Clinton was fantastic. I agree NAFTA was beyond stupid. But we all make mistakes.