Jon Alter: Perot backs Romney
It's a good thing Mitt didn't ask Ross to join him on the stump!
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Ross Perot has been a political cipher since 1992, but he's had his impact and made a lot of folks smile. But it doesn't seem as if he gets out much these days.
If we are to believe a word written by Newsweek's Jon Alter, Ross Perot called him up the other day to complain that John McCain was reviled by former Prisoners of War and was covering up the fact that many of them from the Vietnam War had been transported to the Soviet Union for medical experiments.
Ross Perot says he will vote for Mitt Romney in the March 4 Texas Presidential primary:
"When I went to the Naval Academy and met my first Mormons I asked why so many were excellent officers," Perot recalls. "I learned it was because of their strong family unit."
Perot also said he couldn't back Barack Obama, according to Alter, because Obama was "a Mormon." Alter explained that Obama was a "Christian, not a Muslim," and Perot said that he had read otherwise on the internet but now felt better about the whole thing.
For me at least, Ross Perot, with his charming buffoonery, has taken some of the edge off of some of the intra-party reaction to this week's electoral events.
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He quoted the article accurately. That just shows you the level of out of touch that Perot is.
Fighting for conservatism one day at a time.
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Thankfully when I thought long and hard about voting in 1992 (my first election I was eligible to vote), I sent in my ballot marked for President Bush and didn't cast it for that crazy guy. Though I might have if he hadn't gone cuckoo for Coco Puffs.
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If I was ever to run, I amy actually request to Perot that he endorse my opponent
Yea, that’s amusing.
Rush used this story on his show a week or two ago to insinuate something was suspicious about McCain’s record as a POW. He posted it on his web site with a graphic of Perot's head shaped like a hand grenade. Rush also used the occasion to take a jab at McCain for leaving his first wife.
McCain called this story what it was and is, "a cruel hoax on the families".
that thinks that Perot is a big time Clinton backer. His run as an "independent third party" in 1992 gave the Presidency to Bill.
Now, there is an almost inevitable Republican candidate identified, running against another Clinton and in strolls Perot from 12+ years of oblivion to opine on how he doesn't like the presumptive Republican candidate.
Coincidence?
Perot also said he couldn't back Barack Obama, according to Alter, because Obama was "a Mormon."
I think you meant to say there that 'Obama was "a Muslim."' ?
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Finrod's First Law of Bandwidth:
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but it takes the bandwidth of ten thousand.