Ross Perot
Posted at 3:12pm on Feb. 8, 2008 Jon Alter: Perot backs Romney
It's a good thing Mitt didn't ask Ross to join him on the stump!
By Mark Kilmer
Ross Perot has been a political cipher since 1992, but he's had his impact and made a lot of folks smile. But it doesn't seem as if he gets out much these days.
If we are to believe a word written by Newsweek's Jon Alter, Ross Perot called him up the other day to complain that John McCain was reviled by former Prisoners of War and was covering up the fact that many of them from the Vietnam War had been transported to the Soviet Union for medical experiments.
Ross Perot says he will vote for Mitt Romney in the March 4 Texas Presidential primary:
"When I went to the Naval Academy and met my first Mormons I asked why so many were excellent officers," Perot recalls. "I learned it was because of their strong family unit."
Perot also said he couldn't back Barack Obama, according to Alter, because Obama was "a Mormon." Alter explained that Obama was a "Christian, not a Muslim," and Perot said that he had read otherwise on the internet but now felt better about the whole thing.
For me at least, Ross Perot, with his charming buffoonery, has taken some of the edge off of some of the intra-party reaction to this week's electoral events.
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Posted at 7:37pm on Jan. 18, 2008 Run Mike Run!
By Neil Stevens
Nurse Mayor Bloomberg may say he's not a candidate for President, but he's clearly thinking about it. He talked with Ross Perot's ballot access expert today in a private Texas meeting. Says the AP:
Bloomberg met privately with Clay Mulford, who is well-versed in third-party ballot access and served as campaign manager for Perot, according to an individual close to the mayor. Perot sought the presidency in 1992 and 1996. The lunch meeting with Mulford comes less than two months before Bloomberg would be able to start gathering signatures to get on the ballot and meet Texas' early deadline.
The last thing the Democrats need in this race is a left-wing former Democrat talking big on medical care. Run Mike Run!
