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The first sign Bush was vulnerable didn't come until Pat Buchanan kept him to under 80% of the vote in the 1992 New Hampshire Republican primary. Bush's post-Persian Gulf War popularity, and other factors (like how Al Gore's son had just been in that car accident and Gore actually put his family first), kept a lot of the "big names" out of the race. For example, Mario Cuomo kept floating his name but never getting in and Lloyd Bentsen declared he was too old to be president.

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The actual declared candidates (a whopping total of 6) were mostly considered second stringers, leading to Ross Perot getting into the race. Doug Wilder dropped out before the first primary. Jerry Brown still had a bad reputation at that point and hadn't held an office in almost a decade. Tsongas, an early frontrunner in the primaries, hadn't held an office himself since 1984, and there were serious concerns about his health (he died of cancer before he'd have finished his first erm if he'd been elected). Bob Kerrey (war hero, governor, senator) looked fantastic on paper, but was a terrible campaigner. Harkin was not well known outside his home state, and only contribution ended up being keeping everyone from getting into the Iowa caucuses. Bill Clinton didn't declare until October of 1991, and no one even gave him much of a chance until Perot dropped out in June.

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Agreed.

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To be fair, the mare was just asking for it. I

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He is Texan, that is implied.

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You are in Socal, they are already there.

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I kind of wish he thought he was a Taco Wagon.

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OR Mexican: You, Esse.

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<i>It reminds me of the Democrats before the 1992 election when they were stepping all over each other to run against a sure loser, Bush I. </i>

Wait....what???

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Unrelated, I really want some of your namesake for breakfast. That is all.

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"And would whoever is downfisting this comment please have the courage to explain in a reply what the purported societal benefits (beyond victim-family therapy) of killing criminals may be?"

Winning the trailer-trash, teabagger, racist, fascist-Xtian, and goober votes, for starters. In Texas, that gets you elected.

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Texas is so fucked-up that mega-cataclysms merely tip the balance into "disaster" territory.

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Record = "I screwed the poorz."

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All international treaties should have an asterisk next to the U.S. President's signature:

*except for the fuckwads in Texas.

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I encourage Governor Perry to go to Messico and look at a federale wrong. Because, I'm sure they'd be pleased to introduce him to Texas-style justice without a call to the consulate or a lawyer or his pool boy.

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As someone who was born and raised in Austin, I can assure you America that you don't want Rick Perry as President. It would be fun watching the Perry/Bachmann show, but I treat them as a major threat. His goal has nothing to do with solving any of the country's problems.

His lack of leadership and the $15-21 billion in debt that resulted in $4 billion reduction in education and laying off of thousands of teachers should be a repeated theme when he runs.

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