RIP Ross Perot

[fan_since79]

89 years old.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ross-perot-presidential-candidate-dies-age-89/story?id=64215067

[tdawg87]

I uhhh, I thought he was already dead.

[fan_since79]

So did I.

 

[floplag]

I wish he had gotten more traction, that a third party was more viable, we are in such dire need of another option today.  Perhaps he just wasnt the person people could get behind. 

[Angel Oracle]

He got what, 20% of the vote, in 1992?    Pretty impressive

I was farmed out in 2009 from my employer's IT dept to Perot Systems, which Dell then bought a year later.   Was finally farmed back to original employer in 2014.

R.I.P. H. Ross Perot.

[arch stanton]

I voted for him. 

RIP Ross

[fan_since79]

He facilitated the election of Bill Clinton in 1992.

 

[Tank]

He was a billionaire who bragged about having a $6 haircut.

Loved all his charts whenever he was on Larry King.

If he hadn’t dropped out of the race for a few weeks that summer, November would have been immensely more interesting.

[Tank]

The National archives has a copy of the Magna Carta on display that belongs to Perot.

[floplag]

1 hour ago, fan_since79 said:

He facilitated the election of Bill Clinton in 1992.

 

i kinda hate this argument, its the same as blaming those who voted third party for Trump. 

[Lhalo]

1 hour ago, fan_since79 said:

He facilitated the election of Bill Clinton in 1992.

George f'd that up with his "read my lips" line.

[Catwhoshatinthehat]

3 hours ago, floplag said:

I wish he had gotten more traction, that a third party was more viable, we are in such dire need of another option today.  Perhaps he just wasnt the person people could get behind. 

He had plenty of traction and was actually leading the polls in CA and Texas 6 months before the election.  Between the opposing campaigns going after him, him not listening to his advisers as far as how to react and some missteps (referring to the NAACP as "you people" during a speech) a few months after that he withdrew from the race.  Supposedly that was done to get the press and negative attention off of him then he re-entered the race about a month before the election and it was too late.  For a time he was a viable third party candidate but rather than face and deal with the criticism which politicians have to be able to do he tucked his tail between his legs and ran away.  All anyone remembers is him not doing well in the general election which probably set hopes for any legitimate 3rd party candidate back years.

[Tank]

Without looking it up, I remember that he was furious at how the press went after his family when his daughter got married early in the summer of 92. Pissed off enough that he withdrew because he didn’t want to put his family through anymore of that.

[Kevin]

RIP

 

 

[Blarg]

He passed away pretty young for a Hobbit.

[gotbeer]

For all his faults.  He did give it a go as a third party candidate.  

But makes you wonder, if he ran today, with all the advanced political shenanigans.  If he would have done better?  When he ran, internet was just starting.  Really TV was the only way to get exposure, and if I remember right, he bought like 30 minutes of TV time on some network station?  And if I remember right, that really did him in as being all charts and very rigid sounding.  If he got the pro consultants of today, and killed that tv time, would he have done better?

[Blarg]

No. He was suffering mostly from nobody knowing who he was and what platform he was running on. The charts is what did him in. Not that they were not informative but his audience were waiting for the Carol Burnett show and Tim Conway to portray Ross Perot with Harvey Korman as George Bush and Lyle Wagoner as Bill Clinton. Charts are not good comedy. Unless Tim Conway is fumbling with them. 

[UndertheHalo]

Guy was a big time advocate for veterans who were in trouble.  Real nice legacy in that area.  Rest in Peace Ross. 

Edited July 10, 2019 by UndertheHalo

[Tank]

his VP choice was some ex-military guy that SNL lampooned vigorously.

[RallyMo]

1 hour ago, Tank said:

his VP choice was some ex-military guy that SNL lampooned vigorously.

I think you'd be hard pressed to find a VP choice that hasn't been lampooned by SNL vigorously.

[Adam]

He was a solid human by all accounts. RIP

[Jason]

10 hours ago, RallyMo said:

I think you'd be hard pressed to find a VP choice that hasn't been lampooned by SNL vigorously.

I don't watch SNL but did they really lampoon Biden? It seems like a Biden parody wouldn't be funny and probably just boring. The Cheney ones were great

[Tank]

10 hours ago, RallyMo said:

I think you'd be hard pressed to find a VP choice that hasn't been lampooned by SNL vigorously.

there is a critical shortage of Hubert Humphrey parody skits.

[arch stanton]

Yes they lampooned him but Stockdale was a far better man than any of the clowns who have been VP since that election

[Angel Oracle]

Legend has it that when major meetings at his home took place, including when first starting up Perot Systems some 30 years ago, the breakfasts consisted of cereal and juice.   He was a no nonsense guy.

He was no Stephen Schwartzman, who once had lobster brunches for at least 100 people twice per weekend and threw himself a many millions in expenses birthday party that included $1 million to Rod Stewart to perform.    Talk about excess.    This is the same guy that said he would bury his competition.