I still have it and probably should brush up on it. But so much of it is seared into memory.
David Brock was instructive toward what to expect just like understanding Trump's devotion to Roy Cohn left no doubt toward how Trump would conduct a campaign and his presidency.
Ross Perot was valuable also, in summary late in the third debate of 1992. I'll never forget that because I had just started wagering on politics seriously in Las Vegas and it was obvious that Republicans were now attacking anyone they viewed as a threat, including family members. I was thrilled that Perot specifically referenced it during the debate. That was the early stage of the Richard Mellon Scaife push and all those ruthless recruits -- including Kavanaugh -- who formed the vast right wing conspiracy and beyond.
This is the quote from Ross Perot: http://debates.org/index.php?page=october-19-1992-debate-transcript
"PEROT: No. They're not correct and if you look at my life, until I got involved in this effort, I was one person. And then after the Republican dirty tricks group got through with me I'm another person, which I consider an absolutely sick operation. And all of you in the press know exactly what I'm talking about.
They investigated every single one of my children. They investigated my wife. They interviewed all of my children's friends from childhood on. They went to extraordinary sick lengths, and I just found it amusing that they would take 2 or 3 cases where I was involved in lawsuits and would engage an investigator -- the lawyers would engage an investigator, which is common. And the only difference between me and any other businessman that has the range of businesses that I have is I haven't had that many lawsuits.
So that's just another one of those little fruit-loopy things they make up to try to, instead of facing issues, to try to redefine a person that's running against them. This goes on night and day. I will do everything I can, if I get up there, to make dirty tricks a thing of the past. One of the 2 groups has raised it to an art form. It's a sick art form.
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