Should HRC win this next election, there will be plenty of blame slung around, and very little of it will go at the original culprits:
Pat Buchanan
H. Ross Perot
All the Perot voters.
That's right, any success that HRC has this November goes straight back to 1992 and that election. In 1991, GHWB was riding a wave of maximum popularity after the Gulf War, Reagan had turned the economy around, and America was again was prosperous and full of self confidence. Newt Gingrich and other young GOP House members were getting elected in Red States, and momentum for the GOP to regain the House for the first time since Eisenhower was building. So what happened?
First of all, Pat Buchanan led the attack for the Far Right against a sitting popular President because he wasn't Conservative enough to suit them. Buchanan jumped on Bush hoping to drive the Party further Right. He had no delusions that he was going to be elected President, he wanted to influence the Party politics. I doing so, his criticism of GHWB started the Dems dirty work.
H. Ross Perot and GHWB had a feud that goes back to the Texas days for both of them. Perot was the Trump of the 20th Century. A loud, brash Billionaire. His platform was he was going to Washington and "clean out the barn!".
Those two attacked Bush from every angle. Buchanan, Alan Keyes, and couple of other minor players made the ultimate political Party suicide by challenging a President much like Ted Kennedy did to Jimmy Carter in 1980. Meanwhile, H. Ross Perot decides he was going to single handedly changing Washington a went Third Party, and based his platform on the rising budget deficit and career politicians. Stuff that plays to Conservatives.
In the end, this bunch cripple Bush and allowed Clinton/Gore to win with less than 50% of the popular vote.
If not for this, GHWB would have won, and the Clintons would have never left Arkansas. As soon as Bill became President, HRC started her campaign. "8 for Bill, 8 for Hill".
The Clintons ran their Party and mapped out Hillary's path to the White House. Daniel Patrick Moynihan gave up his Senate seat and the Party gave her an uncontested nomination. It was thought that 6 years of Senate work would give her the bona fides to get elected in the disastrous post GWB election. Surprise, surprise, people hate her so much, her Party elects Øbama.
The Clintons negotiate a Sec of State gig for her to double down on her resumé, and we see had that went.
This has all been calculated since 1992. If she becomes President, I have a big F.U. for all Conservatives that wasted their votes on H. Ross Perot. Elections have consequences. Like tobacco, some election choices won't kill you until years later.
