Fame, if you win it, comes and goes in a minute
Fame, if you win it, comes and goes in a minute....
lyric, "Make Someone Happy"
by Adolph Green and Betty Comden
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In the early 1990's, H Ross Perot was one of the most famous people in America. He ran for president as a 3rd party candidate and got almost 20 million votes against Bill Clinton and George HW Bush. For awhile that year it seemed like the short brash fast talking Texas billionaire could pull off the impossible and win the presidency from outside the two party framework. Perot was leading in some polls early in the year. He didnt fare particularly well in the televised debates though and by election day it was clear all he could do was be a spoiler. Still, it was quite a ride.
Perot died today at the age of 89.
I dont think anyone seeded anything here about Perot today, even though the news of his death came out this morning.
On the ABC World News tonight, the news of his death was 5th or 6th on the list and only merited a quite brief story.
I guess you need to do better than be the most successful 3rd party candidate in the past 100 years to get a big time obit.
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He gave it a hell of a run...
RIP Ross.
RIP Sir. You were definitely unique.
I vaguely remember Perot when he was running for President because I was too young to vote. What I do recall thinking is he said some kooky things but I also thought he made a lot of sense on some of the issues.
RIP - Mr. Perot
Who knows what would have happened had he not dropped out in 92 and then came back
Before he did that he was actually leading in polls in California and Texas mid 1992.
Yeah, you heard that right.
He also made another famous statement while running. That was the time when GM was starting to pull out of Michigan (heading for Mexico and China). Ross said, "Would the last person out of Michigan please turn out the lights". He knew what was going to happen. No, he didn't have any information that wasn't available to anyone else, he was just very very smart about reading situations and their results.
RIP, Mr Perot