We voted for whomever the Libertarian candidate was in ’92 … which we’ve done every election since ’72 (‘cept for registering Repub to support Dr. Ron Paul in 2008 & 2012 … we actually no longer think that voting, the thug-replacement program, is a good idea anyway).

Perot was scary because he ran on a platform of claiming to make “government” more efficient and less wasteful and, since he’d successfully run large business & proved he could do it, he might have managed it somehow. What we definitely DON’T need is our oppressive, coercive theft-based “government” becoming more efficient. Government waste is a good thing. If the bureaucrats didn’t waste 80% of the property they steal from us, they’d be using it against us to confiscate even more of our freedom, health & property.

And even more proof of the scam:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/en...

Pretty hilarious that the President of Mexico would be the chair of economic & climate development...

Bam! Bam! Bam! Square on the nose, Lucky!
+1 = 6.

Algore, Calderone. What a pair! A couple of demented clowns who are perfect examples of the Peter Principle.

Environmentalists have become a religion. No scientific basis needed, and the presumption of the necessary action is made before the discussion started.

Reality:
Climate change- The biggest scam of our era.
faking data, massive government spending, incessant howls of the do-gooder self-righteous classes, using the rings from one tree (not one type of tree) to recast history, using statistical techniques chosen to get a result rather than produce dispassionate analysis, claiming their propaganda is supported by 'Science' when it is science fantasy, sacking of dissenters in universities, threats of violence against journalists for asking questions, massive money supporting threats of legal action against those who describe the cheating, and etc.
'the problem'- there is no climate change problem unless the earth is entering a cooling phase which is possible. A cooler earth would be detrimental to humans. There is no evidence from history or science that carbon dioxide can increase temperature,.

It is further down (at least for now) in this post from Rocky Road: "His daughter was never threatened with physical harm...the threat was the release of compromising photos.
Perot went bat shit crazy even before this, and suspected his closest advisors to be 'moles', and demanded signed loyalty oaths from his staff." This is pretty much how I remembered it, too.

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/26/us/199...

That's the "story". This is just a small example of what power could be brought to bear.

Which post?

See rockyroad's comment about the release of compromising photos.

You describe most of politics and politicians ;^)

Gore, Obama, ISIS, et alia all seem to have the the same vision of Utopia, namely, them in control of a society populated by that woman and child in Africa barely living at a subsistence level with no hope of a better life ever.
Thanks for the video RMP.

His daughter was never threatened with physical harm...the threat was the release of compromising photos.
Perot went bat shit crazy even before this, and suspected his closest advisors to be 'moles', and demanded signed loyalty oaths from his staff.
And guess what...I still voted for this fruitcake.

Agreed completely. That was probably the last chance that the US could have been saved. Arguably there might still have been a chance in 2008, but I think after TARP, the coffin was sealed.

I don't recall hearing about a "threat". The question for me has always been "Why did Perot suddenly drop out when all of the polls were escalating rapidly in his favor?" I only extrapolated that a threat had been made, without any evidence. 1992 was filled with 70 hour work weeks...I missed something...
Thanks for the insight!

That is a bigger loss than JFK.
He should have responded to those terrorists like he did when his employees were threatened.
But what father would have? Placing liberty above the life of your child?
Makes me glad I don't have a child to be threatened.
That was the last time I voted.

Voting for Perot is no sin. Had he not responded poorly to the threat on his daughter, I think he would have won in 1992. That incident, however dirty it was, decided the election.

Mr Meyers should either do an analysis of the politics and economics of subsidized urbanization or should wallow in wishful thinking but not both.

He rightly points out that costs of a massive urbanization program would be staggering. He could point out that this would only put a dent in the problem and would be a political nightmare because there's a huge cultural difference between urban and exurban/rural people. Instead he spends the rest of the article denying reality.

And to think that Al Gore came within 500+ votes in my state and 1 justice on the Supreme Court of becoming President. I and many others lost 10% of my net worth in the 6 weeks that Gore threw his temper tantrum as the stock market plunged almost 20%. I suppose that is my punishment for voting libertarian in 2000. My "wasted" (in quotation marks for Robbie) vote almost got Al Gore elected.