How To Run Against Perot
Two Bush outriders, House Minority Leader Bob Michel and presidential Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater, launched this attack. Declaring that there was a “sinister” aspect to Perot’s appeal, Michel claimed last week that Perot was a “mountebank” who raised the specter of “authoritarianism.” Fitzwater called Perot a “dangerous and destructive personality,” adding that voters may ask “what kind of monster are we buying here?” It’s a standard, well-known incumbent’s charge against a challenger-only in especially vituperative form....