LMAO, I'm reading only Tom Tommorows

[ButterflyBlood]

the Clinton years one sure make me nostalgic though...

anyway I found the Perot one, I was 8 when he ran, so I can't remember much. Is this how he was received? pretty funny:

[buckeye1]

1. No color toons then, and of course,

Tom hated Democrats then as much as now. I like Tom's work but he is lazy. He can only do 4 or 6 panels a week.

[On the Road]

2. Perot Was the Real Deal in 1992

His big single issue was the deficit. It was a good single issue for an independent candidate. Strangely enough, a lot of people were actually quite frightened about $200 Billion deficits as far as the eye could see.

To that issue, Perot added a populist note. He vehemently opposed NAFTA, and said that there would be a "giant sucking sound" as jobs left for Mexico. He wanted to make decisions by town hall meetings and solve issues like health care by "lifting the hood up and seeing what the problem is."

He was folksy, populist, and vague. But he was independent and had a couple of good issues. Perot had rock star status and in August 1992, the polls were split almost evenly between Bush, Clinton, and Perot -- all with 30-35%.

I might even have voted for him because I was so concerned with the deficit that I thought that only a single-issue candidate willing to commit political suicide could balance the budget. I was wrong. Clinton did that and much more.

[Interrobang]

3. I just posted this on another thread about that...

I remember watching that debate in '92, because it was pertinent to the whole NAFTA thing, to which most people here were fairly opposed, until you got into about the upper 1% income bracket, of course. Perot was the only one who even so much as *mentioned* Canada, and impacts that it might have on us (with the perspective, of course, that Canada comprises something like 60% of the US's trade). I recall that he kept referring to "our Canadian friends," and that sort of made me like him. I didn't really realize that he was sort of a scattershot wingnut who, somewhat like a stopped clock, happened to be right every now and then...