I'm guessing snark. Glenn's capitolized adjectives have proven to be a very sharp sword indeed.

OT - what happens if I go to the Island Grill and sing Carmen Ohio? ;->

I predict no one will answer this question.

--Pete Schwetty

It seems to me that Perot appealed to enough of the disaffected lower-middle class Southern Republican voters to clear the way for Clinton.

Bloomberg's constituency is a little different, IMHO - the disaffected cultural Republicans who aren't bible bashers.

Different rift, same political effect of splitting the Repub consituency.

But this is surmise, not based on much objective fact. Anyone have actual polling data, perhaps focus group results on Perot's voters?

It's impressive. --shooter242

Perhaps to a sociopath without morals, or a groupie without a brain.

To the rest of us - especially we residents of NYC - the man is worth less than a carton of cigarettes and a sharp piece of metal inside the Big House.

When I was a kid, my sister and I fought incessantly. We fought over everything and nothing. If Mom settled one argument, we immediately found something else to fight about. To her, and perhaps to us, the purported substance of the disputes was unimportant -- we were immature brats and we were gonna go at it about something anyway.

If you could get the priests of High Broderism to really come clean about their bipartisanship fetish, I am convinced they would see no difference between our current political situation and those long-ago sibling squabbles. After decades of writing and reading horse-race election coverage, eating lobbyist's cocktail weenies, and gossiping about irrelevant nonsense, they have convinced themselves that the stuff we care about -- the substantive issues underlying and fueling our icky partisanship -- is unimportant. If it wasn't our childish mewling about habeas corpus, it would be something else. If we weren't complaining about warrantless wiretapping and waterboarding, we would create some other excuse to start another round of "he started it." It is always something with those bratty children who refuse to grow up. Caring about substance is just so ... juvenile.

They really act as if they think they are the grown-ups in all this, and that we need to be punished for our tantrums. Convincing a richer Joe Lieberman to monkey-wrench the 2008 campaign is the moral equivalent of sending us to bed without supper.

Any chance I'll find some of your goodies at the Island Grill? I predict I will. ;->

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=1546265546

In the 1992 election, he received 18.9% of the popular vote - approximately 19,741,065 votes - (but no electoral college votes), making him the most successful Independent presidential candidate in terms of the popular vote since Theodore Roosevelt in the 1912 election. Perot managed to finish second in two states: In Maine, Perot received 30.44% of the vote to Bush's 30.39% (Clinton won Maine with 38.77%); In Utah, Perot received 27.34% of the vote to Clinton's 24.65% (Bush won Utah with 43.36%).

According to Ronald Rapoport and Walter Stone (2005), Perot's appeal came from two sources. First was his outsider, crusading zeal that made the major parties seem reactionary. Second, he adopted specific positions that had been abandoned by both parties — he was nationalistic and isolationist; he was conservative in social policy. He opposed free trade. He was above all a crusader for a balanced budget, as he warned of the horrors of the national debt.

A detailed analysis of the voting demographics revealed that Perot's support drew heavily from across the political spectrum, with 20% of his votes coming from self-described liberals, 27% from self-described conservatives, and 53% coming from self-described moderates. Economically, however, the majority of Perot voters (57%) were middle class, earning between $15,000 and $49,000 annually, with the bulk of the remainder drawing from the upper middle class (29% earning over $50,000 annually).[7]

Based on his performance in the popular vote in 1992, Perot was entitled to receive federal election funding for 1996. Perot remained in the public eye after the election and championed opposition to NAFTA, urging voters to listen for the "giant sucking sound" of American jobs heading south to Mexico should NAFTA be ratified.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ross_Perot

Let me finish!

Given a choice between Bloomberg and Perot even I would vote for Bloomberg.

Who can keep up? I bet three beers the Bears would lose to the Ravens. I guess RMP is sipping beers and playing with his grandchildren.

I don't even know if the running back Reggie Bush is running from a relative named George? Reggie Bush has a leg-knee injury and George has a brain injury.

I'm confused. It's too social 'round here lately. There are too many end of year pot-lucks. Do you ever feel sorry for the dead duck or the smoked Turkey?

If I could, I'd dressed disguised as a women plumber and enter the Ladies locker room after the New Years Eve Gala's are over.

Who don't have cleavage? Pedinska? hush~? I wish I'd been a innocent plumber. Or rather, It be nice if poor GOP Bumbags would unclog his ego and not enter the presidential sewer race?

Let them fools be stools. Nature does mock. Who gets the last laugh, scriptures they 'spout' and will be debased and humbled for their own louse-Pride. Good. ex-spurt. Big blooming spurt deals? I bet they even missed the sparking diamond hanging, rubies, emeralds, and other visible gems dangling from the timber branches this morn, post-snow. They really are such sad sad ego-fool miserly stools...gads.

dot.comma.comma, pathetic.

clogged crapper lame race.

That's it for today for me.

It's a smoke a Turkey time.

No go near their deathbeds!

But maybe he was right about NAFTA.

http://www.creators.com/opinion/david-sirota/was-ross-perot-right.html

"OT - what happens if I go to the Island Grill and sing Carmen Ohio? ;->" - Pedinska

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I will answer this question.

If one Pedinska were to present one's self at the Island Grill and sing even a mediocre version of Carmen Ohio, one would be immediately swept up by the assembled staff and placed upon a a pedestal so high that clouds of joy would obscure one's ears.

I also imagine that one would enjoy a free libation, courtesy of the bartender who also matriculated from THE Ohio State University (after only 11 years of intense study, I might add).

If Carmen Ohio fails to do the trick, paddle your canoe up the street to the Schooner Wharf Bar and get poofed (poufed)(<;)" backatcha) on Piña Coladas while listening to Michael McCloud sing his (first wife) Greta's Tits and fending off bar dogs.