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**effebrala** · 12-22-2011, 03:49 PM

I remember it, but I thought Perot killed his campaign when he started talking like a nutcase.
There just might be some interesting twists and turns coming in this one that will make Perot's run pale by comparison.

Dude, I was there, and a major player in the very beginning. My actions were instrumental in launching the PPC (like in less than 72 hours), and a buddy and I opened the very first PPC office which Perot funded for us - a fully furnished turnkey 3,000 s.f. office with 30 phone lines, a week after the formation of the PPC. The only office which Perot opened prior to ours was the Dallas HQ in his office building (and that was on March 11th, the day of the formation of the Perot Petition Committee). So I know what really happened, 'they' threatened him and his family. His explanation for pulling out was, "They intend to disrupt my daughter's wedding* and I won't allow that."

This part you're referring to as "talking like a nutcase" is where Perot was addressing the NAACP convention and he said, "You people..." and the media had a field day with that.

So no, Ron Paul and his supporters have LONG way to go to reach the level that Perot had in mid-'92. Don't kid yourself.

*you can take that to mean whatever you want, but the way I read it is something like this, "It'd be such a shame to have a funeral overshadow your daughter's wedding." - or some variation of that.

12-22-2011, 03:49 PM	#10
effebrala Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 594 Senior Member	I remember it, but I thought Perot killed his campaign when he started talking like a nutcase. There just might be some interesting twists and turns coming in this one that will make Perot's run pale by comparison. Dude, I was there, and a major player in the very beginning. My actions were instrumental in launching the PPC (like in less than 72 hours), and a buddy and I opened the very first PPC office which Perot funded for us - a fully furnished turnkey 3,000 s.f. office with 30 phone lines, a week after the formation of the PPC. The only office which Perot opened prior to ours was the Dallas HQ in his office building (and that was on March 11th, the day of the formation of the Perot Petition Committee). So I know what really happened, 'they' threatened him and his family. His explanation for pulling out was, "They intend to disrupt my daughter's wedding* and I won't allow that." This part you're referring to as "talking like a nutcase" is where Perot was addressing the NAACP convention and he said, "You people..." and the media had a field day with that. So no, Ron Paul and his supporters have LONG way to go to reach the level that Perot had in mid-'92. Don't kid yourself. *you can take that to mean whatever you want, but the way I read it is something like this, "It'd be such a shame to have a funeral overshadow your daughter's wedding." - or some variation of that.
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