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In Fiddler on the Roof, the milkman Tevye imagines what life would be like “If I Were a Rich Man.” Among the shrewder lyrics is the insight that “the most important men in town will come to fawn on me” and pose questions that would “cross a rabbi’s eyes.” Why? Because “When you’re rich, they think you really know.”
I voted for Ross Perot, and am not sorry. I believed there was something evil in the Clintons. Perot was a bit addled, but not evil and hey, there was a gun running operation, remember, “fast and furious?” That wasn’t brand new with Obama. And the Clintons with their ilk are still evil.
Businessmen do have certain things to recommend them as leaders, even over well-educated career politicians, hard as that might be for our SAT meritocracy to recognize. For comparison:
As a businessman Trump is a tax-payer; as a politician Hillary is a tax-eater.
Trump has made billions delivering value to private individuals; Hillary has made millions promising other people’s money to groups.
Trump is considered an outrageous self-promoter, but Hillary’s career is nothing except the promotion of her self.
Trump has built skyscrapers, golf courses and world-class resorts – solid concrete things enjoyed and used by real flesh-and-blood people; Hillary has built nothing for others – her public career is bereft of accomplishments.
To me that gives Trump a lot of credibility in this match-up.
PS: I didn’t vote for Perot in ’92 or ’96. He proved he was too erratic by quitting the race in ’92. I voted Republican both times.
Well I just hope you aren’t one of the people saying that voting for Johnson is a vote for Hillary. As to the Fast and Furious you can’t get credit for preempting conspiracies, and even then that was not a conspiracy so much as the stupidest sting operation in history.
I just learned last week that the “Birther” issue was first floated during the SC primary in 2008 by Hillary’s campaign, just as the Willie Horton issue was created by Al Gore during his campaign against Dukakis. I predict this will be more readily promoted by the MSM after she is elected.
I agree that Perot and Trump are both oddballs, but I think Carly Fiorina showed that maybe we should expand the pool of potential candidates. I recall there was some enthusiasm for Lee Iaccoca back in the day – I would argue he would have been a much better Democrat President than most of the options offered in recent years.
We disagree on Perot; but, you were right about the Clintons.
A vote for Johnson is every bit as much a vote for Hillary, to the same extent that a vote for Perot turned out a win for Bill Clinton.
I didn’t realize that, so won’t make the same mistake again. I am voting for Trump, and wish it was Scot Walker, or Carly, or Cruz, or anybody but Sue!
From what I have read, this isn’t true, you have a source for that?
I voted for Perot in 1992 because he was the only one who would talk about the national debt: both the Republicans and the Democrats were all “business as usual,” and we know how that all worked out re national debt.
I think Mona brings up a very important point about Perot and Trump being against free trade. I have noticed a very disturbing trend among the electorate, including Republicans and Conservatives, that the U.S is getting screwed due to our trade deals. I think this is a sort of “economic illiteracy.” People’s perceptions are skewed by the outsourcing of low-skilled jobs that go overseas, as this is a very easy statistic to comprehend. What is just as real, but more difficult to see is the insourcing to the U.S. of more high-tech jobs from overseas. For instance, over 95% of the Honda cars sold in the U.S. are actually made in North American Plants. (Maybe the Japanese are complaining about outsourcing to America?) As Mona points out, the big economic spurts in the U.S. defy the critics.
Another advantage to trade is that the cost of goods in our stores is enormously less than if we had to rely solely on U.S. manufacture. Americans enjoy an extremely high standard of living, and most will simply not work for low wages, because they can always receive more money from welfare payments. This is the main driving force of our illegal immigration from South of the border. It is little known that we currently have a near record number of unfilled jobs in our history – over 5 million! http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/09/news/economy/america-5-6-million-record-job-openings/