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MARK BALDRIDGE Perot write-in campaign livens election circus Second, a write-in campaign of ativ strength, regardless of Hi success or failure, mil send a message to Washing ton laud and clear: We’re tired of the same old crqpl_ Whal? No H. Ross Perol? In the aftermath of the party con ventions and with Dan Quaylc now firm ly in the Rcpubl ican co-pi lot seat, what have we left to look forward to? Maybe Dan Rather will have an J aneurysm. Other than that entertaining pros pect, we have only fathomless elec tion hype to gel us to November. No, for my money, H. Ross is still the man to beat and I intend to devote the remainder of my autumn to put ting him in office, by force if neces sary. Come November, there’s gonna be some changes, yep. I hereby call for a mass-grass-roots campaign, subversive and illicit as sin, to write-in the man. Wc’U drag him kicking and screaming to the While House if we have to. But 1 bet we won’t have to. Just look at him. Here’s a guy who could buy his own little country if the whim took him and run it any way he wants. But he’s a patriot, sec? He wants to “Buy American.’’ Or wanted to. So what happened? Thai’s the only thing that worries me — what became of our Golden Boy? I have some terrible suspicions. And, if I’m right, it may already be loo late. Figure it out. The guy literally can’t be bought, not with money anyway — no one has the pocket change. H. Ross is “the man with every thing,” definitely hard to shop for. But he wants Power. Not the ordi nary power that being the richest man in America gels you. Perot wants Power with a capital Pow and once pinned his hopes on the presidency to gel it. I fear that he’s already been taken by a higher bidder. 1 picture a meeting, midway to November and a mandate, in which Our Hero learns what some have always suspected: that the world is secretly run by a group of 13 powerful and shadowy men (does anyone doubt they’re all men? — and all ugly, at least as ugly as H. Ross: hence the shadows). Our Hero, until now pure of heart, is tempted and falls. He’s invited to join this fraternity, unknowing that he is merely the toady and pawn of still more ruthless and ugly men who secretly direct his newly found secret brotherhood. These other men are manipulated by still others — perhaps aliens — unspeakably ugly. And the veils re cede into the dim and occult distance. If this has happened, then the H. Ross Perot we knew and loved is effectively no more. He will have been already absorbed into the abso lute power brokerage that corrupts absolutely. All my plans to elect him by write in will go for nothing — his new “friends” can’t allow one of their number to hold so limiting a public office as president. But the campaign will not have been in vain. First, it may nave succeeded in unmasking the conspiracy that runs the world. Second, a write-in campaign of any strength, regardless of its success or failure, will send a message to Washington loud and clear: We re tired of the same old crap! The least they can do is think of some entirely new crap — buy new image makers, speech writers, ad people — anything. And last, a large enough write-in effort will succeed in doing the only thing that H. Ross ever could have done. It will keep the promise made by the man so many looked to as the savior of American politics: Ease the boredom of election year. Because the circus of a televised democracy is probably inevitable by now — too laic to change. Only a lot of us think it’s time to send in the clowns. 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